Start-up
Optimizing Computing Resources and Applications
ActiveEon, created in November 2007, is a product of the OASIS project-team, which specializes in developing tools to simplify and accelerate the execution of scientific and industrial applications. This start-up provides a commercial framework for exploiting ProActive, a piece of software developed by the INRIA joint team with the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis and the CNRS (I3S) and distributed under an open source license by the OW2 consortium created by the merger between ObjectWeb and Orientware. This middleware optimizes grid or multicore processor computing resources by using parallelization and virtualization. The technology applies to scientific and industrial applications with high computing requirements, but it is also useful more generally for any computer resources departments interested in reducing electrical consumption for their computers.
The ProActive software was so successful that it required a commercial structure capable of providing a service offering to support the software (training, consulting, integration, user support, software maintenance, etc.). After such success, it is not surprising that the new company has already begun to collaborate with Thales Avionics Electrical Systems (to accelerate simulations of electrical power supply for airplanes) and with Amadeus, a company specializing in computerized airline reservation systems (to accelerate tests and software). It is currently in discussions with the CEA to support the deployment of applications for nuclear fission and fusion.
ActiveEon is continuing to work with the OASIS team, collaborating with it on the Agos project for developing grid services with industrial partners1 as part of the SCS competitiveness cluster.2 The company has already garnered international recognition; one-third of its users are in the United States, one third in Europe and one third in Asia Pacific. Through OASIS contacts in China, the young company is also building ties with potential partners in China.
1 HP, Oracle, Amadeus, Société du canal de Provence.
2 SCS: Solutions communicantes sécurisées (secure communicating solutions).
Contact:
Denis Caromel
scientific advisor to ActiveEon, professor at the University of Nice
Sophia Antipolis and leader of the OASIS project-team,
INRIA
Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée, University of
Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS (I3S).
Tel.: + 33 4 92 38 76 31
