May 20, 2010
Introduction
— Posted by Christophe Cérin @ 9:57 am —
This page aims to provide
information about my professional activities
(mainly) as full time professor at the
university of Paris XIII. I'm working with
Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris Nord
[LIPN].
I'am also involved with teaching activities at IUT de Villetaneuse,
département d'informatique. My principal teaching topic is Operating Systems
(introductory course -- in french).
In the past, I was involved with the following courses:
Innovative Technology, PostScript, BSP, Python, SVG
[see here]
and Introduction to computer architecture
[see here].
May 13, 2010
Research Interests
— Posted by Christophe Cérin @ 10:53 am —
My work is about Grid Computing, Parallel
Computing and also on the design of efficient
librairies for running threads on multicore
machines, especially heterogeneous
ones. Please, follow
this link for more
information.
BonjourGrid is an example of a middleware
to coordinate multiple instances of desktop grids that we are
developing in my research group in the context of an international
collaboration with Tunisia. A BonjourGrid virtual machine based on Xen
for the use with Boinc, Condor and XtremWeb can be downloaded
from Sourceforge;
please, send me an email is you need more
information.
BonjourGrid is
implemented according to the pub-sub paradigm including the fault
tolerant part that manage the crash of coordinators. Pub-sub is an
example of event-based programming. BonjourGrid is also based on
Bonjour from Apple, a Local Area Network protocol running on your Mac.
PastryGrid is another desktop Grid
middleware able to execute 'on the fly' task graphs with dependencies
as well as bag of
tasks. PastryGrid
is built on top
of Pastry,
it scales well and is also fault-tolerant. From an algorithmic point
of view, I'am working on the broadcast (and multicast) operations for
grids. The work stealing principle is currently under study when we
degrade (artificially, for simulation matters) the performance of
multicore uniprocessors.
Publication list on DBLP: check
here (the list is almost exact). You will find 'very old'
(1989-1995) publications on The Collection of Computer
Science Bibliographies web site.
New: Invited Speaker for the
DaaD Summer School on
Current Trends in Distributed Systems, Tunisia,
24-26 september 2009.
New: (presentations
given in 2010)
Workshop in Wuhan, China
-- HPGC workshop in
Atlanta during IPDPS
-- GPC conference,
Hualien Taiwan
-- ICA3PP
Conference, Busan, Korea
-- INRIA / DGRT workshop
(projet international INRIA / universités tunisiennes), Toseur.
May 3rd, 2009
Administration of Research
— Posted by Christophe Cérin @ 10:35 am —
Chair of SafeScale Project
(Security And Fault-tolerance to Exploit Safety
ambient Computing in lArge scaLe Environments)
funded by ANR (Agence
Nationale de la Recherche). Organizer of SGS
workshop with Europar 2008 (see the LNCS proceedings with Springer here). General Chair of GPC
2007 (Grid and Pervasive Computing) conference (see the LNCS proceedings with Springer here). Organizer of Large Scale Grid issue of PARCO journal.
In a recent past, I was the Co-organizer of Grid
@ large workshop before/co-located with
Europar'2005. Member of an INRIA - universités
tunisienne project entitled MODELISATION ET DEPLOIEMENT
DES SYSTEMES PARALLELES A LARGE ECHELLE. I was
involved with HPDC'2006 and PACT'2004 as finance chair and with
CCGRID'2008 as publication chair.
Member of the Steering Committee of GPC conference
series. Member of the program committees of CCGRID, SBAC, AINA
conferences.
September 3rd, 2008
Leisure, Sport...
— Posted by Christophe Cérin @ 6:54 pm —
If you are asking for nice cycling tours
between "Cap Nègre" and "Fort de Brégançon"
(Var - France), please contact me. I can make
special arrangements for you (thanks to
Michel) in order to pass along "Col
du Babaou", close to "Collobrières"
village. The tours are free of harmful
politicians and fashion victims. I'am sure
that you will meet only respectable people!
I have also an experience of cycling in "Bois de
Vincennes" (Paris) until Créteil and "bords de Marne". Don't hesitate
to contact me on this matter.
See also this
site for cycling in the Var region (south of France).
