SAT – Grid Networks and Services

The concept of Grids is a promising vision in which potentially very large collection of geographically distributed resources (e.g., computing, storage, visualization, etc.) are aggregated to build on demand computing and data processing shared environments. These large scale cybernetic infrastructures gain increasing attention from a broad range of actors: from research communities to computer providers , large companies, and telecommunication operators. Moreover, a broad deployment of the grid technology can modify and influence the design of the future Internet as other emerging communicating applications. Indeed a network -centric computing has been recently proposed as a novel direction and vision for the Internet. However, to make this vision real, lot of fundamental researches initiatives and results as well as experimental evaluations are necessary. This SAT will focus on research works engaged toward a better understanding and an innovative architectural design of Grids network and communication protocols and services.

Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet - Committee Chair -

INRIA

Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet received an M.S. in CS from the National Institute of Applied Science) of Lyon in 1984, a Ph.D. in CS in 1988 and an HDR (Habilitation a' diriger des Recherches) in 2002 from the University of Lyon. From 1989 to 2004, she was Associate Professor in Computer Science at the Ecole Centrale de Lyon. She joined the National Institut of Research in Computer Science (INRIA) as permanent senior researcher in 2005. She is leading the INRIA RESO team within the LIP laboratory of the Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon. She is member of the scientific "Networks and Telecoms" expert committee of CNRS (National Research and Science Center) and of the French National Research Agency. Her interests include Grid computing and Grid networking, network and Internet protocols, network architecture, quality of service, network measurement, high-speed and low-latency nets, programmable networks. She has co-chaired the GGF Data Transport Research Group, and participates in a variety of International, European and National Grid projects including DataGRID, DataTAG, eToile, GRID5000, GdX, EC-GIN, HIPCAL, CARRIOCAS. She is co-chairing of the PFLDnet and Gridnets conference steering committees and member of numerous international program committees, is member of IEEE and is active in the OGF (Open Grid Forum).