Section: Bilateral Contracts and Grants with Industry

MUMPS Consortium

In 2017, in the context of the Mumps consortium (http://mumps-consortium.org), we worked in close collaboration with Toulouse INP to:

• sign or renew membership contracts with EDF, Altair, Michelin, LSTC, FFT-MSC, and with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, on top of the ongoing contracts with ESI-Group, Safran, Siemens and Total,

• organize point-to-point meetings with several members,

• provide technical support and scientific advice to members,

• provide experimental releases to members in advance,

• organize the third consortium committee meeting, at Altair (Grenoble).

Three engineers have been funded by the membership fees in 2017, for software engineering and software development, performance study and tuning, business development and management of the consortium. Half a year of a PhD student was funded by the membership fees (see Section 9.1). On top of their membership, an additional contract was signed with Michelin to provide a new functionality and study how to best exploit Mumps recent features in their computing environment.