Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Initiatives

Inria Associate Teams

Participants : Marc Baboulin, Jack Dongarra.

R-LAS is an Inria associate team with University of Tennessee,(https://www.lri.fr/~baboulin/r-las.html ), 2014-2017.

This project is proposed in the context of developing a class of fast algorithms based on randomization for numerical linear algebra solvers. The funding was used in 2014 to cover exchange visits for researchers and PhD students from Inria and University of Tennessee.

Informal International Partners

• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - USA: collaboration of Marc Baboulin with Sherry Li on application of randomization techniques to the solution of large sparse linear systems using direct methods (joint publications and co-organizations of mini-symposia for SIAM conferences).

• Old Dominion University - USA: Collaboration with Pr. Masha Sosonkina on locality optimization for numerical linear algebra solvers (joint publication) and preconditioned Krylov subspace methods (PhD thesis of Aygül Jamal, starting in October 2014).

• Louisiana State University - USA: collaboration of Joel Falcou with the STELLAR team in the framework of the HPX project (Hartmut Kaiser). It is mainly related to the design and implementation of a C++ asynchronous runtime system. In this framework, the STELLAR team hosted 2 PhD students of the Postale team for extended visits in 2013 and 2014.

• Texas A&M University - USA: collaboration of Joel Falcou with the PARASOL team in the framework of the STAPL project (Lawrence Rauchwerger). It is mainly related to the applicability of parallel skeletons inside STAPL on large scale parallel machines.

• University of Illinois at Urbanna Champaign (UIUC) - USA, in the context of the Inria Joint Laboratory for Petascale computing. Since 2011, we have initiated collaborations with researchers from UIUC (Wen-mei Hwu, Karl Rupp) in the area of numerical software.

• University of Manchester: collaboration with Professors Nick Higham and Françoise Tisseur on random orthogonal matrices and fault-tolerant linear algebra algorithms (Amal Khabou).

• University of California - Irvine: collaboration of Christine Eisenbeis with Professor Jean-Luc Gaudiot on Application Characterization for Modern Multicore Architectures

Participation In other International Programs

Stic AmSud: BioCloud-EEAmSud

Participants : Christine Eisenbeis, Alessandro Ferreira Leite, Claude Tadonki.

BioCloud-EEAmSud is a cooperation project integrated by Brazil, Chile and France following the 2012 STIC-AmSud call. Partners in Brazil are Universidade de Brasilia, Universidade Federal Fluminense, and EMBRAPA-Genetic Resources and Biotechnology (CENARGEN), through the support of the Coordination of Improvement of Senior Staff of the Ministry of Education in Brazil (CAPES). In Chile, the main partner is Universidad de Santiago de Chile, through the support of the National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research of Chile (CONICYT). In France, the institutions involved are Mines ParisTech (CRI) and Inria-Saclay, through the support of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs (MAEE). The international project coordinator is Pr. Maria Emília Machado Telles Walter (UnB). Alessandro Ferreira Leite' thesis work is a joint University of Brazilia - université Paris-Sud 11 thesis and is partially supported by BioCloud-EEAmSud. Maria Emilia Machado Telles Walter and Alba Cristian de Melo visited Grand-Large in 2013, as well as Taina Rajol.