~280 persons – ~100 permanent researchers and staff – ~180 PhD students 2 departments

Laboratoire d ’InfoRmatique en Image et Systèmes d’Information –UMR CNRS 5205 (LIRIS)

• ~280 persons – ~100 permanent researchers and staff – ~180 PhD students

• 2 departments:

• Image processing
• Data-Knowledge-Services

• DRIM team: Distributed processing and Retrieval of Multimedia Information

Back to (pre-)history

• Back to (pre-)history

• What has happened to IT ?

• Visions for a new (IT) world ?

A short history of computers and IT… The Jaguar

• 224162 cores – Memory: 300 TB – Disk: 10 PB

• AMD x86_64 Opteron Six Core 2600 MHz (10.4 GFlops)

• Rmax = 1759 – Rpeak = 2331

• Power: 6,950 MW

• http://www.nccs.gov/jaguar/

A short history of computers and IT… The LCG System Architecture

And in 2010, a (still) new paradigm: the Cloud

• “A large-scale distributed computing paradigm that is driven by economies of scale, in which a pool of abstracted, virtualized, dynamically-scalable, managed computing power, storage, platforms, and services are delivered on demand to external customers over the Internet”

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