INRIA at the heart of Grid Computing research

• Globalization and dematerialization of computer resources
• Overcoming technical and sociological obstacles
• Still embryonic grids
• Research in France and INRIA

INRIA at the heart of grid research

• Ensuring efficient communication between software components
• Guaranteeing rapid access to data, coupling computing codes
• Optimally distributing tasks and data for computation
• A Java program library for distributed parallel computing
• Adapting communication protocols to heterogeneous infrastructures and very high speed
• I-Cluster 2: a shared experimental platform
• Other INRIA projects

The GRID concerted initiative

The Gelato consortium

A few Web sites