Kickoff meeting

The kickoff meeting of Héméra has been held on October 5th, 2010, in Paris.

(The slides of the presentations will be uploaded shortly.)

9:30 - 10:00	Welcome
10:00 - 10:20	Overview of Héméra (C. Perez) & of Grid5000 (F. Desprez & D. Margery)
10:20 - 12:20	Overview of the seven scientific challenges
	• Traffic Awareness (P. Gonçalves)
	• Robustness of Large Systems in Presence of High Churn (P. Sens)
	• Energy Profiling of Large Scale Applications (L. Lefevre)
	• Large Scale Computing for Combinatorial Optimization Problems (B. Derbel)
	• Scalable Distributed Processing Using the MapReduce Paradigm (G. Antoniu)
	• Multi-parametric Intensive Stochastic Simulations for Hydrogeology (J. Erhel)
	• Thinking GRID for Electromagnetic Simulation of Oversized Structures (T. Monteil)
12:20 - 12:30	Discussion
12:20 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 16:00	Presentation of the 8 workings groups
	• Transparent, safe and efficient large scale computing (S. Genaud & F. Huet)
	• Energy Efficient Large Scale Experimental Distributed Systems (L. Lefèvre & J.-M. Menaud)
	• Bring Grids Power to Internet-Users thanks to Virtualization Technologies (A. Lèbre & Y. Jégou)
	• Efficient exploitation of highly heterogeneous and hierarchical large-scale systems (O. Beaumont & F. Vivien)
	• Efficient management of very large volumes of information for data-intensive applications (G. Antoniu & J.-M. Pierson)
	• Completing challenging experiments on Grid’5000 (L. Nussbaum & O. Richard)
	• Modeling Large Scale Systems and Validating their Simulators (M. Quinson & A. Legrand)
	• Network metrology and traffic characterization (P. Gonçalves)
16:00 - 16:10	Discussion
16:10 - 16:30	Administrative issues
16:30 - 17:00	General discussion