Advisory Board
Dr Jean-Yves Berthou: Information Technologies Program Director, Coordinator of the European Exascale Software Initiative -
EDF, Research and Development Division.
Jean-Yves Berthou has been a researcher for EDF R&D since 1997. He received a Ph.D in computer science from "Pierre et Marie Curie" University (PARIS VI) in 1993. His research deals mainly with Parallelization, Parallel Programming and Software Architecture for scientific computing.
Jean-Yves was the head of the Applied Scientific Computing Group (High Performance Computing, Simulation Platforms Development, Scientific Software Architecture, Code Optimization, Cluster and Grid Computing) at EDF R&D from 2002 to 2006. He has been Chargé de Mission – Strategic Steering Manager for Simulation, in charge of the simulation program at EDF R&D from 2006 to 2009. He is the Director of the EDF R&D Information Technologies program since 2008.
Jean-Yves is the coordinator of the EESI European Support Action, European Exascale Software Initiative, www.eesi-project.eu. He is the Vice-Chair of the Numerical Models steering committee program of the French National Research Agency, member of the steering committee of OCDS group (Systems Design and Development Tools Working Group) from the SYSTEM@TIC Competitiveness cluster, member of the INRIA Evaluation Commission.
Dr Eddy Caron: Assistant Professor at École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, president of the Advisory Board.
Eddy Caron is an Assistant Professor at École Normale Supérieure de Lyon and holds a position at the LIP laboratory (ENS Lyon, France). He is a member of the GRAAL project and the technical manager for the DIET software package. He received his PhD in C.S. from Université de Picardie Jules Verne in 2000, and his HDR (Habiliation à Diriger les Recherches) from École Normale Supérieure de Lyon in 2010.
His research interests include libraries for scientific parallel computing on distributed-memory machines, problem-solving environments, and grid and cloud computing. He is involved in many program committees (such as HCW, ISPA, HotP2P). He is co-chair of the GridRPC working group in OGF. He is the coordinator of SPADES, a French ANR project (08-ANR-SEGI-025). He is co-founder and scientific advisor of the SysFera company.
Please see http://graal.ens-lyon.fr/ ecaron for further information.
Dr Frédéric Desprez: Director of Research at INRIA
Frédéric Desprez is a director of research at INRIA and holds a position at the LIP laboratory (ENS Lyon, France). He received is PhD in C.S. from Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble in 1994 and his MS in C.S. from ENS Lyon in 1990. His research interests include parallel algorithms, scheduling for large-scale distributed platforms, data management, and grid and cloud computing.
Please see http://graal.ens-lyon.fr/ desprez/ for further information.
Alain Kerbrat: Owner of CollESys
Alain Kerbrat has been working for 20 years in embedded systems design and system engineering, for the telecommunication, automotive and aerospace domains.
He has followed a complete path from research to industry. As a researcher in the Verimag laboratory, he has contributed to an Automated Test Generation tool for Telecommunication protocols. He then moved to the company Verilog (acquired by Telelogic, then IBM) to industrialize this tool within the SDL toolset ObjectGeode. He later worked on the development of the UML 2.0 toolset TauG2. In 2003, he moved to the aeronautical service company Aeroconseil, where he has led the System Engineering department for 7 years, before becoming Information Systems Director. He also has been engaged for 8 years in AFIS (Association Française d’Ingénierie Système) as a contributor to the requirements engineering group, and as member of the board.
He is now the owner of CollESys, a company supporting industrial projects for their engineering and marketing needs.
He lectures System Engineering in academic and industrial programs.
He holds a PhD in computer science from Université Joseph Fourier of Grenoble, and a French MBA from Université des Sciences Sociales of Toulouse.
David Loureiro: SysFera CEO
David Loureiro is CEO of SysFera. After studying applied mathematics at École Polytechnique Universitaire de Lyon (EPU Lyon, formerly ISTIL), he worked in INRIA project-team GRAAL, located at Laboratoire de l’Informatique du Parallélisme (Parallel Computing Science Lab), on the DIET software and its management and administration tools.
Following that, he took management courses at École de Management Lyon (EM Lyon). David, Eddy Caron and Frédéric Desprez decided to found the SysFera company to industrialize DIET and help large companies that possess computing resources dedicated to scientific computing to make the best of them.
Dr Thierry Priol: Deputy Scientific Director assigned to the Research Department and the European Partnership Department, INRIA
Thierry Priol is senior scientist at INRIA. He got a PhD in computer science from the University of Rennes 1 in 1989 and a « Habilitation à diriger des recherches » in 1995. He carried out research actitivies in the area of parallel computing, parallel rendering and software tools based on the shared virtual memory concept. He was involved in research activities dealing with the programming of grid infrastructures in particular the design of software components for code coupling applications. More recently, he launched a research activity aiming at programming service infrastructres using the chemical computing paradigm. He is one of the co-founder and scientific advisor of the Kerlabs spin-off started in 2006 and selling operating system technologies for PC clusters. From 1999 till 2009, he was the scientific leader of the PARIS project-team at INRIA Rennes Bretagne Atlantique. From 2000 till 2003, he was the deputy chair of the INRIA evaluation committee. From 2003 till 2007, he was the head of the ACI GRID from the Ministry of Research, the national grid initiative. From 2004 till 2008, he acted as the scientific coordinator of the CoreGRID network of excellence funded by the European Commission. From April 2009, he is Deputy Scientific Director assigned to the Research Department and the European Partnership Department in charge of the Networks, Systems and Services, Distributed Computing domain. Since 2010, he his Research Director for the EIT ICT Labs, a pan-European initiative uniting Education, Research and Innovation for the Future Information and Communication Society.
Stéphane Réquena: Chief Technical Officer at GENCI
Stéphane Requena is Chief Technical Officer at GENCI (Grand Équipement National de Calcul Intensif). He obtained his Master’s degree in Computer Science in 1993 at Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour.
He has been CTO at GENCI since its creation in January 2007. His research interests include high-performance computing, accelerators (GPGPU, FPGA, Clearspeed), remote rendering, vizserving and collaborative work.
