Research

My research is about distributed computing, grid and peer-to-peer infrastructures. I work on middlewares enabling an efficient use of those systems.

You may want to consult my list of publications or my pages about GRAS or FAST for further informations.

GRAS, SURF and AMOK

My main current efforts are about the GRAS programming environment. The distributed applications are developed within the comfort of the simulator (which is precious given the instability and scale of the target platforms). They can then be deployed on the real platform without any source code modification and with acceptable performance (comparable to slow MPI implementations).

As simulator, current versions of GRAS use SimGrid, but next incarnation of the GRAS will be based on a distributed simulator called SURF from the same people than SimGrid.

On top of the GRAS programming environment, I work on several high level tools such as ALNeM, an application-level network mapper. All those tools are grouped under the name AMOK. More to come on this later.

FAST & DIET

I developed during my PhD a SDK called FAST (Fast Agent's System Timer) which allows the scheduler to get informations about the current state of the system as well as the needs of the routine to schedule.

I modified NetSolve, a RPC based client/agent/server system developed at the University of Teneesee to make use of FAST. The result of this integration is described in this article. I'm also integrating FAST into DIET, a grid enabled Problem Solving Environment project in which my research team is involved trough the ARC INRIA called OURAGAN.

Scientific genealogy

I'm in the process of investigating my scientific genealogy. For now, here is what I know:

I graduated at the ENS-Lyon on the december, 11th 2003. My subject was "High performance computational servers in a metacomputing context". My advistor was:
Frédéric Desprez. He did graduate in 1994 at the INP-Grenoble and the ENS-Lyon. His subject was "Basic Routines for Scientific Computing on Distributed Memory Parallel Machines". His advisor was:
Bernard Tourancheau. His advisor was:
Michel Cosnard. He did graduate in 1983 at the Grenoble University. His advisor was:
François Robert. He did graduate in 1968 at the university of Grenoble. His advisor was:
Noel Gastinel (1925-1984). He defended his PhD on "Matrices du second degré et normes générales en analyse numérique linéaire" the december, 12th 1960 at the Grenoble University. His advisor was:
Jean Kuntzmann (1912-1992). He graduated in 1940 on the subject " Contribution à l'étude des systèmes multiformes" at the University of Paris. He was one of the first computer scientist and applied mathematicien in France (see also here). That is why I don't list my scientific genealogy further, but if you are interested, click here to continue exploring this genealogy further on the Mathematics Genealogy Project.