Section: Dissemination

Dissemination

Leadership within the Scientific Community

Stéphane Vialle is the leader of the RGE action (Réseau Grand Est ) in the ASR GDR of CNRS.

Sylvain Contassot-Vivier is co-animator of the Embedded Pole in the ASR GDR of CNRS.

Emmanuel Jeannot and Martin Quinson are members of the steering committee and the direction committee of the ADT Aladdin-G5K. Emmanuel Jeannot served as head of the Nancy site until September and was then replaced by Martin Quinson is serving as vice-head for the Grid'5000 project. Stéphane Genaud is also member of this Action.

Scientific Expertise

In 2009, Jens Gustedt was a referee and member of the thesis committee of Sascha Hunold, University of Bayreuth, Germany.

In 2009, Stéphane Genaud was member of the thesis committee of Heitem Abbes, University Paris 13, France and University de La Manouba, Tunis, Tunisia

In 2009, Emmanuel Jeannot was member of the thesis committee of Adrien Bellanger (INPL, Nancy)

In 2009, Martin Quinson was a referee and member of the thesis committee of Brice Videau, University of Grenoble, France.

Emmanuel Jeannot is member of the COST-GTAI of INRIA that selects and supervises INRIA Research Cooperative Actions (ARC).

In 2009, Sylvain Contassot-Vivier was a member of the thesis committees of Aurélien Vasseur, University of Franche-Comté, and Joris Rehm, University Henri Poincaré - Nancy 1.

Teaching Activities

Martin Quinson is teaching the following modules at ÉSIAL (University Henri Poincaré - Nancy 1): “C and Shell ”, “Technics and tools for programming ” (1A) and “Networks and Systems ” (2A). He also participates to the following modules: “Object oriented programming ” (1A), “Parallel and Distributed Algorithms ” (3A) and “Grid and advanced distributed algorithms ” at University Henri Poincaré - Nancy 1. He is also responsible of the specialization “Distributed Systems and Applications ” of ÉSIAL.

Sylvain Contassot-Vivier is teaching “Parallel algorithms ” (M1), “Algorithmic and programming ” (M2), “Parallelism and Grids ” (M2), “Communicating systems ” (M2) and “Networks ” (M2) at the University Henri Poincaré - Nancy 1. He is also responsible of the professional master in “Networks, Services and Mobility ” at the same university.

Stéphane Vialle is teaching “Information Systems ” (M1) at SUPÉLEC at Paris, “Parallel and Distributed Computing, and Computing Grids ” (M2) at SUPÉLEC at Metz, “Distributed Applications ” (M2) at the Louis Pasteur University of Strasbourg, and “Concurrent Applications: concepts and tools ” at CNAM (National French Institution for Adult Training Courses) in Lorraine. He taught “GPU cluster programming ” in the winter CNRS school about high performance computing on hardware accelerators (december 7-11, 2009, Banyuls sur Mer). He is also responsible of the organization of computer science teaching at CNAM in Lorraine.

Lucas Nussbaum is teaching the following modules at IUT Nancy-Charlemagne (University Nancy 2): “Object-oriented programming ” (1A), “Networking ” (AS), “Installation and configuration of Linux ” (Licence pro ASRALL) and “Administration of applications and services ” (Licence pro ASRALL).

Editorial Activities

Since October 2001, Jens Gustedt is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DMTCS ). DMTCS is a journal that is published electronically by an independent association under French law. Based on a contract with INRIA , its main web-server is located at the LORIA . DMTCS has acquired a good visibility within the concerned domains of Computer Science and Mathematics, which is confirmed by a relatively high impact factor.

In 2009, Jens Gustedt has served as program committee member of the 18th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and network-based Processing PDP 2010 and of the Fifteenth International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS'09 ).

Martin Quinson was member of the program committee of the Second International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques for Communications, Networks and Systems (SimuTools'09).

Emmanuel Jeannot was program topic chair of Euro-Par 2009 Euro-Par 2009 and Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments (CLADE) 2009 CLADE 2009 . He also was member of the program committee of the High Performance Distributed Computing conference HPDC 2009 , Heteropar Heteropar , the International Conference on Parallel Computing ParCo , the 11th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications HPCC , dixième conférence de la Société Française de Recherche Opérationnelle et d'Aide à la Décision Roadef 2009 , the second International Conference on Computer Science and its Applications CSA 2009 , the Eighth international conference on parallel processing and applied mathematics PPAM 2009 , and of RenPar 2009 Renpar 2009 .

Stéphane Genaud was member of the program committee of the second International Symposium on Grid and Distributed Computing GDC 2009 .

Stéphane Vialle was one of the two Program Chairs of the 2nd International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing in Finance (PDCoF'2009 ). Stéphane Vialle was also member of the program committee of the international conference on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS 2010 ), and of the nineteenth RenPar conference ("Rencontres francophones du Parallélisme") (Renpar 2009 ).

Sylvain Contassot-Vivier has been invited in the editorial board of the seventh international conference on Engineering Computational Technology (ECT2010 ) as well as in the organizing committee of the 16th Intl. workshop on cellular automata (AUTOMATA'2010 ).

Lucas Nussbaum was member of the organization and program committee for the Grid'5000 Spring School 2009 .

Refereeing

In 2009, members of the team served as referees for the following journals and conferences:

Journals:

Future Generation Computer Systems, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Journal of Grid Computing, Journal of SuperComputing, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Parallel Computing, Software: Practice and Experience, Technique et Science Informatiques

Conferences:

ARCS 2010, EuroPar 2009, HPDC 2009, ICANN 2009, ICNAAM 2009, ICPADS 2009, ParCO 2009, PDCoF 2009, PDP 2010, RenPar 2009,

Projects:

we also participated to the evaluation process for PhD thesis CIFRE, and INRIA associated teams.

Invitations and participations to scientific events

Stéphane Genaud has been invited to present the article [25] at the High-Performance Grid Computing Workshop (HPGC 2009) at Rome, Italy.

Martin Quinson has given an invited talk on SimG rid  [29] at the 9th IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer systems (P2P'09 ­ September 2009 at Seattle, USA).

Jens Gustedt has given an invited talk at the Computer Science Colloquium of the University of Bayreuth, Germany.

Jens Gustedt and Stéphane Vialle presented the InterCell software suite, see Sec.  4.3.5 , at the INRIA booth of SuperComputing '09 .

Lucas Nussbaum was invited by Canonical, the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, to attend and participate in the “Ubuntu Developer Summit ” for “Ubuntu Lucid (10.04) ”.

Stéphane Vialle was invited to participate to a “panel discussion on GPU Computing ” at the EuroGPU2009 mini-symposium in ParCo-2009 conference.