Section: Bilateral Contracts and Grants with Industry

Bilateral Contracts with Industry

• In 2018, 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 AIRBUS, FFT-MSC, and SHELL, on top of the ongoing contracts with EDF, ALTAIR, Michelin, LSTC, Siemens, ESI Group, Total, SAFRAN, LBNL,

  • 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 fourth consortium committee meeting, at SAFRAN (Saclay).

  Three engineers have been funded by the membership fees in 2018, for software engineering and software development, performance study and tuning on modern architectures, business development, management of the consortium, and organization of the future of the consortium. Half a year of a PhD student was also funded by the membership fees (see Section 9.1). On top of their membership, an additional contract was finalized with Michelin to study a new functionality and understand how to best exploit Mumps recent features in their computing environment.