GridCoord DoW

Local Activities

In France most activities were led by the ACI GRID National Research programme (Incentive Concerted Action for the Globalization of Computing Resources and Data). This programme was granted in 2001 a total budget of 2.3 M€ and 3 M€ in 2002. As of 2003, all the projects are focused on Grid'5000, and the ACI GRID will not be re-conducted. Its projects are now being taken over by the ACI MD National Research programme on Data Masses and the ACI Security and Informatics National programme. These are expected to hold on for a couple of years, but the future is not very clear on the official programme funders, as a new governmental funding structure has just been created in March 2005, the ANR National Agency for Research, which could take over most of these responsibilities. Even with these political doubts, the future for Grids is very good in France, as there has been a lot of effort invested in convincing the authorities, with excellent feedback. Another way of showing how active the Grid domain is in France is to list the research groups (including the industry) which received funding from the ACI GRID in these past years: 19 projects in 2001 (more than 70 research teams), 12 projects in 2002 (more than 50 research groups), 7 in 2003 (more than 30 research groups), 6 projects in 2004 (26 research groups). The current trend is to fund less individual projects, but to have more funds available for the chosen ones. This concentration appears to be aimed at the sites which host Grid'5000, as all the nodes are not available yet. This shows how much Grid'5000 is the important project in France. Following is a summary of the various activities organized around Grid'5000.

Applications

Laboratories / Teams	Projects
CERFACS, IRIT, LaBRI, LIP-ENSL	Grid TLSE: Expertise site dedicated to sparse matrices computation
LAAS	End-to-end modelling of distributed applications
IRIT	DATAGENE: Intensive computing on genomic data
INPT, INSA	Gridification of numerical computing applications
Grenoble Observatory	Using a grid to exploit the results of astrophysical experiments
CERFACS	Studying the feasibility of globally simulating climate variability on computing grids
IRISA	Modelling and simulation of solutate transport throughout porous materials
LIFL-INRIA	Multi-criterion modelling and resolution of the “Protein Folding Problem” on the Grid
LIFL-INRIA	Parallel and co-operative methods for multi-objective optimization on the Grid
INRIA-Sophia	JEM3D: distributed solver in Java
INRIA-Sophia	Grid computing and P2P computing to solve a challenge in quantum mechanics
INRIA-Sophia	GRID enabled CFD code
IMAG ID / INRIA	Virtual reality on Grid
INRIA-Sophia/I3S	Global analysis of radiographic images
LIFC	Asynchronous algorithms

Programming environments

Laboratories / Teams	Projects
ICPS, LSIIT	Transforming and adapting programs for the Grid
INRIA-Sophia	JECS (Java Environment for Computational Steering)
INRIA-Sophia	DiMeCo (DIstributed MEsh COmputing)
INRIA-Sophia	Mesh partitioning on heterogeneous architectures
LABRI/INRIA	In-line visualization of scientific applications
PRiSM UVSQ	Hybrid methods for global computing
LIFL/INRIA	Programming environments for parallel, co-operative optimization methods on the Grid
LIFL	Programming language and environment for large-scale grid computing
LIFL	Java distributed environment for the Grid
PRiSM UVSQ	Assistance tools to exploit large-scale architectures

Runtime support

Laboratories / Teams	Projects
IMAG ID, PRiSM, GILCO	Scaling up the KAAPI runtime environment
LABRI/INRIA	Communication libraries for clusters and computing grids
IRIT	Efficient handling of biomedical requests on computing grids
IRIT / SIERA	Contextual and integrated monitoring of deployed services

Grid Middleware

Laboratories / Teams	Projects
IMAG ID & LSR, LIP6-INRIA, IBCP	Gedeon Project, ACI Data Masses
LINA - INRIA	Replicating and handling requests in a large-scale distributed system
LIFL	Global numerical computing in a large-scale grid
LIFL	Distributed data-mining in large data repositories
IRISA-INRIA	Padico: a middleware based on distributed objects and components
IMAG ID/INRIA	Evaluation of file management systems for light-weight grids in the presence of a large number of tasks
IMAG ID/INRIA	Studying the scheduling of complex resource requests in the framework of grids
ICPS, LSIIT	Transforming and adapting programs for the Grid
IRISA – INRIA	JuxMem: a data-sharing service for computing grids
LIP6 – INRIA	Handling faults in grids
LORIA – INRIA	Data redistribution between clusters
LORIA – INRIA	Emulating heterogeneity
LRI – INRIA	Studying how the XtremWeb PC grid platform scales up
LRI - INRIA	V-cluster: a virtual cluster over P2P resources
LRI – INRIA	MPICH-V3: a fault-tolerant MPI for grids
LRI - INRIA	Collaborative data broadcast for PC grid systems
LAAS	AROMA – tools for building ASP systems
IRIT	Infrastructure for describing, searching and composing services on the Grid
IMAG ID/INRIA	Deployment environment for clusters and grids
IMAG ID/INRIA	Evaluating authentification systems for the clusters and grids
IMAG ID/INRIA	3D-Monitoring 3D for the Grid
IRIT	Adaptive mobile agents for administrating and exploiting the Grid
LIP ENSL - INRIA	DIET (Distributed Interactive Engineering Toolbox)
IRIT	ViSaGe: Virtualising storage in Grids
INRIA-Sophia	ProActive: a grid-enabled middleware
LIFC	Grid-enabled environments

Operating systems

Laboratories / Teams	Projects
IRISA – INRIA	Kerrighed: an operating system for clusters and grids
LRI – INRIA	Studying a synthetic fault injector for the Grid 5000 platform
LRI – INRIA	V-Grid: a very-large scale emulator for grids and P2P systems

Networking protocols

Laboratories / Teams	Projects
IMAG ID/INRIA	Adaptive and efficient collective communications for computing grids
ENSL LIP – INRIA	ORFA: Optimizing the access to remote files using the high-performance Myrinet network
ENSL LIP – INRIA	TAMANOIR: Large-scale deployment and evaluation of an active and programmable network
ENSL LIP – INRIA	eWAN: Grid Network Emulator
ENSL LIP – INRIA	FLOWPERF: Methodology and tools for studying flow interactions
ENSL LIP – INRIA	NOQ: Alternative Transport for very high speed networks
ENSL LIP – INRIA	XCP and transport protocols for variable bandwidth environments
ENSL LIP – INRIA	Grid Overlay: NetShare