Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

General Chair, Scientific Chair

• Laurent Lefèvre was co-General chair of the conference SBAC-PAD : The International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing, Lyon, France (September 24-27, 2018). He was co-organizer of colloquium : "Digital society vs eco-responsability: impact on billions of connected objects, networks and clouds", with Centre Jacques Cartier, Concordia University, Inria, GDS CNRS EcoInfo, Ecole Normale Superieure of Lyon (November 12-13, 2018). He co-organized the E3-RSD school on Energy Efficiency in Networks and Distributed Systems, Dinard (October 1-4, 2018) and the GreenDays@Toulouse v2.0 (2018 Edition) "From IoT to Exascale, what about energy efficiency and carbon emission reduction ?", Toulouse (July 2-3, 2018)

Member of the Organizing Committees

• Laurent Lefèvre was co Special Session Organizer of Special Session on High Performance Computing Benchmarking and Optimization (HPBench 2018), during HPCS conference, Orleans (July 16-20, 2018).

• Christian Perez served on the Organizing Committee of the 2018 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2017) as Conference Awards and Recognitions Co-Chair, on the Organizing Comittee of the French Journées Calculs et Données (Lyon, October 24-26) and of the 1st Grid’5000-FIT school (Sophia Antipolis, April 3-6).

• Frédéric Suter served in the Organization commitee of the session on Exascale Computing for High Energy Physics of the 14th IEEE International Conference on eScience and chaired the "Parallelism" track of the Conférence d’informatique en Parallélisme, Architecture et Système (Compas 2018).

Scientific Events Selection

Member of the Conference Program Committees

• Christian Perez was member of the program committees of the IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing 2018 (Cluster 2018), the 18th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid (CCGRID 2018), the 26th annual High Performance Computing Symposium 2018 (HPC '18), the 2018 Supercomputing Asia conference, and of the 4th International Workshop on Autonomic High Performance Computing. He was a member of the Birds of Feather Committee of SuperComputing 2018 and of the Tutorial Committee of ISC High Performance 2018.

• Olivier Glück was a member of the program committees of PDP 2018 (26th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing) and ICA3PP-2018 (18th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing).

• Frédéric Suter was member of program committee of SBAC-PAD 2018 (30th International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing), VECPAR 2018 (13th International Meeting High Performance Computing for Computational Science) and ICA3PP-2018 (18th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing)

Journal

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

• Christian Perez reviewed articles for the IEEE's Transactions on Big Data journal and for Oil & Gas Science and Technology journal of IFP Energies nouvelles.

• Thierry Gautier reviewed articles for the ACM Transaction on Architecture and Code Optimization.

• Frédéric Suter reviewed articles for the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing and Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience.

Invited Talks

• Christian Perez has been invited to give the following talks:

  • "Towards Reconfigurable HPC Component Models", Invited talk, 4th International Workshop on Autonomic High Performance Computing, Orléans, France, July 17.

  • "HPC Component Models", Keynote talk, HPCS, Orléans, France, July 19, 2018.

• Thierry Gautier has been invited to give the following talk:

  • "Tasks’ management in OpenMP: what about performance guarantee?", Maison de la Simulation, November 20, 2018.

• Frédéric Suter has been invited to give the following talk:

  • "Simulating MPI applications : the SMPI Approach" at the "Modeling and Simulation of HPC Architectures and Applications" mini-symposium at the SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Applications.

Leadership within the Scientific Community

• Eddy Caron is animator and co-chair for the FIL (Fédération Informatique de Lyon) on the theme IDCHP (Informatique Distribuée et Calcul Haute Performance).

• Laurent Lefèvre is animator and chair of the transversal action on "Energy" of the French GDR RSD ("Réseaux et Systèmes Distribués").

• Christian Perez is co-leader of the pole Distributed Systems of the French GDR RSD ("Réseaux et Systèmes Distribués").

Scientific Expertise

• Christian Perez reviewed two projects for the Regional Program STIC-AmSud.

• Olivier Glück is member of the CNU (Conseil National des Universités) section 27 (Computer Science). He participated to the 2018 "Qualifications" session and "Suivi de carriere" session.

Research Administration

• Eddy Caron is Deputy Director in charge of call for projects, research transfert and international affairs for the LIP. He is a member of ”Conseil Technologique Logiciel MINALOGIC". He is member and reviewer for InriaHub.

• Olivier Glück is member of the "Conseil Académique" of Lyon 1 University and Lyon University.

• Christian Perez represents Inria in the overview board of the France Grilles Scientific Interest Group. He is a member of the executive board and the sites committee of the Grid'5000 Scientific Interest Group and member of the executive board of the Silecs testbed. He is a member of the Inria Grenoble Rhône-Alpes Strategic Orientation Committee. He is in charge of exploring potential scientific collaborations between Inria and SKA France.