Section: Overall Objectives

Highlights

Gilles Kahn/SPECIF PhD Thesis Award 2011.

Bogdan Nicolae, former PhD student in the KerData Team (defense on November 30, 2010) won the 2nd Prize at the 2011 Gilles Kahn/SPECIF PhD Thesis Award for his thesis entitled BlobSeer: Towards efficient data storage management for large-scale, distributed systems.

ACM Student Research Competition at ICS 2011.

Matthieu Dorier, Master intern at KerData in Summer 2011 (and now a PhD student there), was awarded the 2nd Prize at the ACM Student Research Competition organized in the framework of the ICS 2011 Conference (http://ics-conference.org/ , Tucson, Arizona, May 2011), for his poster entitled Damaris - Using Dedicated I/O Cores for Scalable Post-petascale HPC Simulations [16] .

IEEE TCPP Best Poster Award at IPDPS 2011.

Alexandra Carpen-Amarie, 3rd-year PhD student at KerData, won one of the 3 IEEE TCPP Best Poster Awards at IPDPS 2011 (http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2011/ , Anchorage, Alaska, USA, May 2011) for her poster entitled Towards a Self-Adaptive Data Management System for Cloud Environments [15] .