The GRAAL team, from the LIP (Laboratoire d’Informatique du Parallélisme, Parallel Computing Lab) (UMR 5668 CNRS-ENS Lyon-UCBL-INRIA), has been created in 2003 by Frédéric Desprez, one of SysFera’s founding associates. Its goal is to lead research on algorithms for scheduling tasks on heterogeneous and distributed infrastructures. The team’s work ranges from theoretical aspects, revolving around application modeling and algorithm creation, to the development of software used in national and international projects.

The DIET software was designed and developed in this context. At first, it was funded by the RNTL GASP project, started in 2001. Since then, DIET has evolved considerably, gaining numerous features and increasing in reliability. It became able to deploy increasingly larger applications on computing clusters and grids.

More recently, the DIET software was chosen by the AFM-CNRS-IBM Décrypthon project as the middleware for its production grid, dedicated to research on neuromuscular diseases. This technological decision was made by IBM engineers based on the quality of DIET’s developments, on its features, and on the support offered by the research team. It prompted Frédéric Desprez, Eddy Caron and David Loureiro to start working on a company project based on this software and on an expertise both on DIET specifically and, in general, on parallel, intensive, high-performance computing.

SysFera-DS is the commercial version of DIET.