Teratec : le calcul haute performance

INRIA

INRIA, the French national institute for research in computer science and control, operating under the dual authority of the Ministry of Research and the Ministry of Industry, is dedicated to fundamental and applied research in information and communication science and technology (ICST). The Institute also plays a major role in technology transfer by fostering training through research, diffusion of scientific and technical information, development, as well as providing expert advice and participating in international programs.

By playing a leading role in the scientific community in the field and being in close contact with industry, INRIA is a major participant in the development of ICST in France. Throughout its eight research centres in Rocquencourt, Rennes, Sophia Antipolis, Grenoble, Nancy, Bordeaux, Lille and Saclay, INRIA has a workforce of 3 800, 2 800 of whom are scientists from INRIA and INRIA's partner organizations such as CNRS (the French National Center for Scientific Research), universities and leading engineering schools. They work in 160 joint research project-teams. Many INRIA researchers are also professors and approximately 1 000 doctoral students work on theses as part of INRIA research project-teams.

INRIA and Teratec

High performance simulation is a theme present at INRIA since the creation of the Institute. In the strategic plan for 2008-2012 this theme is at the centre of three of its seven scientific priorities: "Modeling, Simulation and Optimization of Complex Dynamic Systems", "Computational Sciences" and "Computational Medicine".

In recent years, INRIA has set up numerous collaborations with industrial partners in this domain and four start-up companies were born from the research results around the theme of high performance simulation: CAPS Entreprise , Kerlabs , Scalable Graphics and ActiveEon. It was thus very natural for INRIA to join Teratec. The Institute whishes to develop its partnerships, transfer the results of its research team working on this theme that is considered strategic and generally bring all its ICT expertise to Teratec members and partners.

INRIA and Teratec

Grid'5000: INRIA is a major participant to the GRID'5000 infrastructure, a unique scientific instrument for the study of large-scale parallel and distributed problems in computer science.
In the context of the System@TIC competitivity cluster, INRIA participates to the following projects:

CARRIOCAS : Distributed computation over ultra high optical internet network (coordinated by ALCATEL)
IOLS : Infrastructure and software tools for multi-physics and multi-scale simulation (coordinated by C-S).
Fame2 : A new generation of servers for high performace computation and information processing (coordinated by BULL)

In the context of the ANR programs, INRIA is a participant to several projects in this theme and among them :

SPADES : Servicing Petascale Architectures and DistributEd System
USS-SimGrid : Ultra Scalable simulations with SimGrid
PETAL : Preconditioning for scientific applications on petascale machines
OMD2 : Distributed multi-disciplinary optimization

INRIA is also participating to several initiatives funded by the European Commission in the area of high performance computation, as for example CoreGRID, the European Research Network on Foundations, Software Infrastructure and Applications for large scale distributed, GRID and Peer-to-Peer Technologie.