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Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

European Initiatives

FP7 and H2020 Projects

BigStorage
Title:

BigStorage: Storage-based Convergence between HPC and Cloud to handle Big Data.

Programme:

H2020 ETN.

Duration:

January 2015–December 2018.

Coordinator:

Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM).

Partners:
  • Barcelona Supercomputing Center — Centro Nacional de Supercomputacion (Spain)

  • CA Technologies Development Spain (Spain)

  • CEA — Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (France)

  • Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum (Germany)

  • Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (Greece)

  • Fujitsu Technology Solutions (Germany)

  • Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz (Germany)

  • Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Spain)

  • Seagate Systems UK (United Kingdom)

Inria contact:

Gabriel Antoniu and Adrien Lèbre.

URL:

http://www.bigstorage-project.eu/.

Description:

BigStorage is a European Training Network (ETN) whose main goal is to train future data scientists. It aims at enabling them and us to apply holistic and interdisciplinary approaches to take advantage of a data-overwhelmed world. This world requires HPC and Cloud infrastructures with a redefinition of storage architectures underpinning them — focusing on meeting highly ambitious performance and energy usage objectives. The KerData team has hosted 2 Early Stage Researchers in this framework and has co-advised an extra PhD student.

Collaborations with Major European Organizations

BDVA and ETP4HPC

Gabriel Antoniu and Alexandru Costan are serving as Inria representatives in the working groups dedicated to HPC-Big Data convergence within the Big Data Value Association (BDVA) and the European Technology Platform in the area of High-Performance Computing (ETP4HPC). They are contributing to the definition of the respective Strategic Research Agendas of BDVA and ETP4HPC. A special focus this year of their contributions was the Joint BDVA-ETP4HPC report on technology convergence.