Organisation

Représentant: Christian PEREZ

The Laboratoire de l'Informatique du Parallélisme (LIP) is the computer science laboratory of the ENS Lyon. It is associated with the CNRS, the ENS Lyon, the INRIA and the UCB Lyon 1 (UMR CNRS - ENS Lyon - UCB Lyon 1 - INRIA 5668). LIP's main strength is the creative interaction between long-term fundamental research, innovative software and hardware design, and shorter-term projects and transfer through industrial collaborations. Computing (computers, communications, and applications) is making major and crucial contributions to society's progress. At the same time, the number of infrastructures in the digital world continues to grow rapidly and those infrastructures start to consume significant energy resources. Computing and digital resources as well as their use, are LIP's central objects of study,from both an abstract and practical point of view. Specifically in the context of the greater Lyon region, strategic interactions with other disciplines take place through applications in numerical and computational sciences, complex-systems modeling, biosciences, and communication and semiconductor industries.

The “Avalon” team (Project Leader: Christian Perez) is one of the LIP research teams. The long term goal of the Avalon team is to contribute to the design of programming models supporting a lot of architecture kinds, to implement them by mastering the various algorithmic issues involved, and to study the impact on application-level algorithms. To achieve such a goal, the team plans to contribute at different level including distributed algorithms, programming models, deployment of services, services discovery, service composition and orchestration, large scale data management, etc. All the theoretical results are validated on software prototypes using applications from different fields of science such as bioinformatics, physics, cosmology, etc. The French experimental platform Grid'5000 is the platform of choice for experiments. Members of Avalon are leading the national projects for operating the platform (INRIA ADT Aladdin project, F. Desprez) and for conducting research on it (INRIA Largewingspan project Héméra, C. Perez). The Avalon team has solid collaborations with industrial companies (EDF, BULL, Alcatel-Lucent, etc.) and has recently spin off a startup company (Sysfera). Members of Avalon are involved in teaching activities at ENS Lyon and University Lyon I, in particular at Master level. Moreover, they contribute and organize to international level events (conferences, forum, tutorials, etc.).

The Laboratory of Chemistry (LCh) (Project Leader: Elise Dumont) of the ENS de Lyon has a strong expertise in the modeling of complex systems (mostly interfaces), in strong collaboration with experimentalist. Elise Dumont was recruited in 2008 to lead research on biomolecules damage: she works since 2010 on cross-link adducts. A specific emphasis is given to factors tuning their formation (stereochemistry, best partners, sequence effects) and quantum mechanics approaches. An international collaboration with Prof. U. Rothlisberger group (EPF Lausanne, Switzerland) has been initiated to benefit from state-of-the-art first-principles techniques. This allows building in silico oxidative intra- or interring cross-link lesions and quantifies in silico the B-helix distortion. An ongoing project with one of the teams involved in this proposal (LAN, CEA Grenoble) has being initiated at the same time (2010), in order to tackle the most relevant questions that are faced experimentally.

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The Ecole Normale Supérieure of Lyon (ENS Lyon) is a pluri-disciplinary institution of higher education hosting 23 research laboratories with contractual ties to major research organizations. The ENS Lyon is strongly involved in proposing the highest standard teaching, not only to French undergraduate students but with also towards international students (Erasmus, ATOSIM master oriented towards simulation, numerical Master cursus to be opened in 2012).