Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific events organisation

General chair, scientific chair

Gabriel Antoniu:

Program Co-Chair of the EIT Digital Future Cloud Symposium (Rennes, October 2015).

Member of the organizing committees

Alexandru Costan:

Organizer of the IRISA D1 Department Day Seminar.

Scientific events selection

Chair of conference program committees

Gabriel Antoniu:

Track Chair for the following international conferences: IEEE Cluster 2015 (Data, Storage, and Visualization Track - Chicago, September 2015) and 3PGCIC 2015 (Distributed Algorithms Track - Krakow, November 2015).

Alexandru Costan:

Program Co-Chair of the following international workshops: BigDataCloud 2015 held in conjunction with the Euro-Par 2015 conference (Vienna, August 2015) and ScienceCloud 2015 held in conjunction with HPDC 2015 (Portland, June 2015).

Member of the conference program committees

Gabriel Antoniu:

ACM HPDC 2015, ACM/IEEE CCGrid'2015, ACM/IEEE SC'15, Euro-Par 2015, BigDataCloud 2015 workshop (held in conjunction with the Euro-Par 2015 conference).

Luc Bougé:

BigDataCloud 2015, BigData 2015, ICA3PP 2015, CCGRID 2016.

Alexandru Costan:

Member of the following Program Committees: IEEE Cluster 2015, CSCS 2015, ARMS-CC 2015, BigDataCloud 2015, ScienceCloud 2015, CSE

Other reviews: IEEE BigData 2015, SC 2015, HPDC 2015, CCGrid 2015, Euro-Par 2015.

Shadi Ibrahim:

Member of the following Program Committees: IEEE Cluster 2015, IEEE Cloudcom 2015, ICPADS 2015, IEEE CSE 2015, IEEE FCST 2015, IEEE ICA3PP 2015, IFIP NPC 2015, MEDES 2015, BigDataCloud 2015 workshop (held in conjunction with the Euro-Par 2015 conference), SCRAMBL 2015 workshop (held in conjunction with the CCGrid 2015 conference).

Other reviews: IEEE BigData 2015, SC 2015, HPDC 2015, CCGrid 2015, Euro-Par 2015.

Journal

Member of the editorial boards

Alexandru Costan:

Soft Computing Journal, Special Issue on Autonomic Computing and Big Data Platforms

Reviewer

Shadi Ibrahim:

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, Future Generation Computer Systems, IEEE Systems Journal, Cluster Computing.

Alexandru Costan:

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, Future Generation Computer Systems, Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience.

Invited talks

Gabriel Antoniu:

3rd JLESC workshop:

To Overlap or Not to Overlap: Optimizing Incremental MapReduce Computations for On-Demand Data Upload, 3rd workshop of the Joint Laboratory for Extreme Scale Computing, Barcelona, Spain, July 2015.

Huawei Workshop on New Directions in Algorithms and Software,

Scalable data-intensive processing for science on distributed clouds: A-Brain and Z-CloudFlow, Paris, March 2015.

Inria-Mexico workshop:

Scalable data-intensive processing for science on distributed clouds: A-Brain and Z-CloudFlow, First Inria-Mexico Workshop in Applied Mathematics and Computer ScienceMexico City, June 2015.

IRISA Data Science Symposium:

Damaris: Jitter-Free I/O Management and In Situ Visualization of HPC Simulations using Dedicated Cores, Science Data Ecosystem workshop, Rennes, November 2015.

Luc Bougé

BigDataCloud 2016:

Data computing in distributed, very large-scale clouds: From execution models to programming models, satellite workshop of the Euro-Par 2015 conference, Vienna, August 2015.

Leadership within the scientific community

Luc Bougé:

Vice-Chair of the Steering Committee of the Euro-Par conference.

Gabriel Antoniu:

Leader for the Big Data, I/O and visualization activity within the JLESC - Joint Inria-Illinois-ANL-BSC-JSC-RIKEN/AICS Laboratory for Extreme-Scale Computing.

Gabriel Antoniu:

Principal Investigator of the Z-CloudFlow Microsoft Research-Inria Project, for which he received an Azure Research Award.

Scientific expertise

Luc Bougé:

Member of the jury for the Agrégation de mathématiques, the French national hiring committee to hire high-school mathematics teachers at the national level.

Gabriel Antoniu:

Project evaluator for 12 ANR projects submitted to the ANR 2016 call (Phase 1).

Research administration

Luc Bougé:

Nominated to seat at the CNU (National University Council) in the Informatics Section (27). His 4-year term has been renewed in November 2015.

Luc Bougé:

Scientific Project Leader for Fundamental Informatics at the ANR - Agence Nationale de la Recherche until August 2015, for 40% of his time. It was the end of his 3-year delegation contract.