Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

National Initiatives

PIA ELCI, Environnement Logiciel pour le Calcul Intensif, 2014-2018

The ELCI PIA project is coordinated by BULL with several partners: CEA, Inria, SAFRAN, UVSQ.

This project aims to improve the support for numerical simulations and High Performance Computing (HPC) by providing a new generation software stack to control supercomputers, to improve numerical solvers, and pre- and post computing software, as well as programming and execution environment. It also aims at validating the relevance of these developments by demonstrating their capacity to deliver better scalability, resilience, modularity, abstraction, and interaction on some application use-cases. TADaaM is involved in WP1 and WP2 ELCI Work Packages. Emmanuel Jeannot is the Inria representative in the ELCI steering committee.

ANR

ANR SATAS SAT as a Service (http://www.agence-nationale-recherche.fr/Project-ANR-15-CE40-0017).

• AP générique 2015, 01/2016 - 12/2019 (48 months)

• Coordinator: Laurent Simon (LaBRI)

• Other partners: CRIL (Univ. Artois), Inria Lille (Spirals)

• Abstract: The SATAS project aims to advance the state of the art in massively parallel SAT solving. The final goal of the project is to provide a “pay as you go” interface to SAT solving services and will extend the reach of SAT solving technologies, daily used in many critical and industrial applications, to new application areas, which were previously considered too hard, and lower the cost of deploying massively parallel SAT solvers on the cloud.

ANR DASH Data-Aware Scheduling at Higher scale (https://project.inria.fr/dash/).

• AP générique JCJC 2017, 03/2018 - 02/2022 (48 months)

• Coordinator: Guillaume Aupy (Tadaam)

• Abstract: This project focuses on the effecient execution of I/O for High-Performance applications. The idea is to take into account some knowledge on the behavior of the different I/O steps to compute efficient schedules, and to update them dynamically with the online information.

ADT - Inria Technological Development Actions

ADT Gordon

• 10/2018 - 09/2020 (24 months)

• Coordinator: Emmanuel Jeannot

• Other partners: Storm, HiePACS, PLEIADE (Inria Bordeaux)

• Abstract: Teams HiePACS, Storm and Tadaam develop each a brick of an HPC software stack, namely solver, runtime, and communication library. The goal of the Gordon project is to consolidate the HPC stack, to improve interfaces between each brick, and to target a better scalability. The bioinformatics application involved in the project has been selected so as to stress the underlying systems.

IPL - Inria Project Lab

High-Performance computing and BigData

• Participants: Guillaume Aupy, Emmanuel Jeannot, Julien Herrmann and Nicolas Vidal.

• HPC and Big Data evolved with their own infrastructures (supercomputers versus clouds), applications (scientific simulations versus data analytics) and software tools (MPI and OpenMP versus Map/Reduce or Deep Learning frameworks). But Big Data analytics is becoming more compute-intensive (thanks to deep learning), while data handling is becoming a major concern for scientific computing. The goal of this HPC-BigData IPL is to gather teams from the HPC, Big Data and Machine Learning (ML) areas to work at the intersection between these domains. Research is organized along three main axes: high performance analytics for scientific computing applications, high performance analytics for big data applications, infrastructure and resource management