Section: Overall Objectives

Highlights

Creation of the KerData Team.

The KerData Team was created on July 1st, 2009. We are strongly committed to engage in becoming a Project-Team in 2010.

Strong collaboration with the “Politehnica” University of Bucharest.

We have strengthened our collaboration with the Distributed Systems and Grids Group of the Computer Science and Engineering Department (http://csite.cs.pub.ro/index.php/en/home ) of the Politehnica University of Bucharest (PUB). Three of our current PhD students originate from this department. In 2009, we hosted one PhD student (one month) and one Master student (5 months) from PUB, who contributed to a bilateral project under way. An Associate Team Abroad proposal has been accepted in Autumn 2009 in partnership with the Myriads Project-Team.

Habilitation and PhD Theses.

G. Antoniu defended his Habilitation Thesis (HDR) on March 5, 2009. L. Cudennec defended his PhD Thesis on January 15, 2009.

Marie-Curie European Project.

G. Antoniu coordinates the involvement of the Inria Rennes – Bretagne Atlantique Research Center in the SCALUS project of the Marie-Curie Initial Training Networks programme (ITN), call FP7-PEOPLE-ITN-2008 (2009-2012). Teams involved: KerData and Myriads .

Scientific visibility.

The KerData Team is a founding member of the CoreGRID ERCIM Working Group on Grids, P2P and Service (http://www.coregrid.net/mambo/content/view/747/418/ ), led by Frédéric Desprez, GRAAL Project-Team in Lyon.

Software.

The BlobSeer open-source software has become publicly available on the Inria Forge.