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<td><a href="partners.html#urv">Universitat Rovira i Virgili</a></td>
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<td>Spain</td>
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<td><a href="partners.html#ibm">IBM Haifa Research Labs</a></td>
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<td>Israel</td>
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<td><a href="partners.html#eur">Eurecom</a></td>
<td>EUR</td>
<td>France</td>
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<td><a href="partners.html#bsc">Barcelona Supercomputing Center</a></td>
<td>BSC</td>
<td>Spain</td>
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<td><a href="partners.html#mps">Mpstor</a></td>
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<td>Ireland</td>
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<h3><a name="urv" style="background-image: url('http://cloudspaces.eu/media/editors/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/themes/advanced/skins/default/img/items.gif');"></a>Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) <a href="http://www.urv.cat" target="_blank"><img src="images/ico-link-small.png" border="0" alt="" /></a></h3>
<p style="font-size: 12px;"><strong>Description:</strong> The University Rovira i Virgili is a mid-sized University with approximately 12.000 students and 950 lecturers. The URV has eleven faculties and schools, which teach fifty different courses in the areas of health sciences, social sciences, humanities, technology and experimental sciences. URV is one of the top spanish research Universities in productivity and impact related to its size. At the Department of Computer Engineering and Mathematics, the research group of Architecture and Telematic Services will participate in this project. This research group has experience in large scale distributed systems including peer-to-peer networks and cloud computing, and software engineering and middleware. The group has participated in national and european research projects with solid contributions in the distributed systems fields. The group is currently contributing to the OpenStack consortium through the open source StackSync project and it has extensive experience with OpenStack Swift.</p>
<p style="font-size: 12px;"><strong>Tasks:</strong> The URV group is leading WP1 (management) and WP2(Architecture). The URV group has experience in project coordination and it is currently leading the FP7 CloudSpaces project. Regarding WP2, the group has strong expertise in software engineering and middleware for large-scale distributed systems systems. Furthermore, we also have significant contributions to WP3 (SDS toolkit) and WP4 (SDS services). In WP3 we will be involved in the definition of APIs for data services, and in the specifications of extensible data interception services. In WP4 we will contribute to data reduction techniques where we have previous experience in storage systems. To wit, we outline a recent PhD entitled:“On the Design and Optimization of Heterogeneous Distributed Storage Systems”.</p>
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<h3><a name="ibm" style="background-image: url('http://cloudspaces.eu/media/editors/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/themes/advanced/skins/default/img/items.gif');"></a>IBM Haifa Research Labs (IBM) <a href="https://www.research.ibm.com/haifa/index.shtml" target="_blank"><img src="images/ico-link-small.png" border="0" alt="" /></a></h3>
<p><strong style="font-size: 12px;">Description:</strong><span style="font-size: 12px;"> </span>The IBM Haifa Research Lab (HRL) was founded in 1972. The lab has grown steadily, now em<span style="line-height: 1.3em;">ploying over 500 researchers working in areas such as systems and storage technologies, Cloud </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">Compute, information retrieval, security, and more. HRL is currently one of IBM’s main European </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">centers for innovation.HRL is a centre of competence in cloud computing, supporting IBM world</span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">wide in this area. In particular, Storage Cloud is a key activity at HRL. Our Cloud Platforms group </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">led a number of milestone FP7 projects, including the RESERVOIR project, which addressed the </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">challenges of cloud-scale service deployment, the VISION Cloud addressing an optimized Cloud </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">infrastructure for storage intensive services, ENSURE, which addressed long term digital storage </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">on the cloud. As part of those projects HRL addressed numerous aspects of cloud computing and </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">the interplay between compute and storage in the cloud. Furthermore, IBM Haifa is an active </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">contributor to OpenStack. IBM brings its expertise in extension mechanisms, Storlets and Middle</span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">ware, for cloud storage and Swift in particular which have been developed in various EU projects.</span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">Furthermore, various optimizations including placement, compression and deduplication have</span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">been studied and developed at HRL.</span></p>
<p><strong style="font-size: 12px;">Tasks:</strong><span style="font-size: 12px;"> </span>In the IOStack project HRL will lead WP5 on data services that will focus on instrumenting <span style="line-height: 1.3em;">true native analytics support in a cloud based object store. The contribution will include devel</span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">oping proper APIs for such analytics and implementing of the storlets based compute mechanism </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">within an object storage (most likely OpenStack Swift). In addition HRL will contribute to perfor</span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">mance and cost optimizations via data reduction and other methods.</span></p>
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<h3><a name="eur" style="background-image: url('http://cloudspaces.eu/media/editors/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/themes/advanced/skins/default/img/items.gif');"></a>Eurecom (EUR) <a href="http://www.eurecom.fr/en" target="_blank"><img src="images/ico-link-small.png" border="0" alt="" /></a></h3>
<p><strong style="font-size: 12px;">Description:</strong><span style="font-size: 12px;"> </span>EURECOM is a graduate school of engineering and research institute in telecommunications lo<span style="line-height: 1.3em;">cated in Sophia Antipolis, France. It is organized as a consortium of industrial and academic mem</span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">bers including EPFL, Télécom Paris, Swisscom, THALES, SFR, ORANGE, ST ERICSSON, CISCO, </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">BMW Group Research and Technology, Monaco Telecom, Symantec, SAP and European Universi</span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">ties (Politecnico di Torino in Italy, Helsinki University of Technology TKK, in Finland, Technische </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">Universität Munchen in Germany, and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">Norway). EURECOM employs about 70 scientists in three research departments: networking </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">and security, multimedia, and mobile communications. The networking and security department </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">focuses on distributed systems, computer applications and the underlying communication mech</span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">anisms. The department has participated in a large number of national and EU projects such </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">as BIGFOOT, CLOUDSPACES, A4CLOUD, FIGARO, VIS-SENSE, RECOGNITION, I-CODE and </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">many more.</span></p>
<p>In particular, the involvment of EURECOM in IOStack materializes through the Distributed Sys<span style="line-height: 1.3em;">tems Group (DSG), lead by Prof. Pietro Michiardi. The DSG is a internationally renowned group </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">that blends theory and system research in the domain of large-scale distributed systems and al</span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">gorithms. In addition to research, the group is characterized by an active participation to various </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">open-source communities, including that of Apache Hadoop and that of Apache Spark.</span></p>
<p><strong style="font-size: 12px;">Tasks:</strong><span style="font-size: 12px;"> </span>EUR leads WP5 (Big Data Analytics as a Service) and actively participates to WP2, that <span style="line-height: 1.3em;">concerns the IOStack Architecture. Regarding WP5, EURECOM has a strong experience in scal</span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">able computing frameworks, including Apache Hadoop and Spark, both at the system level (e.g. </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">by introducing several new core components for Hadoop) and at the algorithm design level (e.g. </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">by being active in the domain of modeling algorithmic execution, scalable machine learning al</span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">gorithm design, and scalable time series analytics). In addition, EURECOM has has several years </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">of experience in operating a private cloud deployment supporting both teaching and research for </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">EURECOM.</span></p>
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<h3><a name="bsc" style="background-image: url('http://cloudspaces.eu/media/editors/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/themes/advanced/skins/default/img/items.gif');"></a>Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) <a href="http://www.bsc.es/" target="_blank"><img src="images/ico-link-small.png" border="0" alt="" /></a></h3>
<p><strong style="font-size: 12px;">Description:</strong><span style="font-size: 12px;"> </span>The Barcelona Supercomputing Center – Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS), es<span style="line-height: 1.3em;">tablished in 2005, serves as the National Supercomputing Facility in Spain. The mission of the </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">BSC-CNS is to research, develop and manage information technologies in order to facilitate scien</span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">tific progress. The BSC-CNS not only strives to become a first-class research centre in supercom</span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">puting, but also in scientific fields that demand high performance computing resources such as </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">the Life and Earth Sciences. Following this approach, the BSC-CNS has brought together a critical </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">mass of top-notch researchers, high performance computing experts and cutting edge supercom</span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">puting technologies in order to foster multidisciplinary scientific collaboration and innovation.</span></p>
<p>Personnel of BSC-CNS taking part to the project are members of the Computer Sciences Depart<span style="line-height: 1.3em;">ment of the BSC-CNS. More precisely, they are members of the Storage System group that has an </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">extensive experience with data management in all levels. The group works from the node level to </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">wide-area distributed level. In the node level, the group has contributed on new file systems and </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">optimizations of the I/O stack. At the cluster level, several contributions on cooperative caches </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">as well as heterogeneous and scalable storage systems have been achieved. Finally, the Storage </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">System Group has worked on replica management and location in XtreemFS, which is a wide-area </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">file system proposed in the context of the EU XtreemOS IP Project.</span></p>
<p><strong style="font-size: 12px;">Tasks:</strong><span style="font-size: 12px;"> </span>The main tasks assigned to BSC are in WP3 (SDS Toolkit) and WP5 (Data Services). On <span style="line-height: 1.3em;">WP3, the group will participate on the performance (bandwidth, latency) control of the control </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">plane of the SDS toolkit. On WP4, the group plans to introduce several data services contributing </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">with features like deduplication, compression, or caches going from hot data cache to intelligent </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">prefetchers and filters. Finally, the group will contribute to WP2, as the group has knowledge of </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">lower layers (I/O Path) and will support the consortium on these topics.</span></p>
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<h3><a name="mps" style="background-image: url('http://cloudspaces.eu/media/editors/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/themes/advanced/skins/default/img/items.gif');"></a>Mpstor (MPS) <a href="http://www.mpstor.com/" target="_blank"><img src="images/ico-link-small.png" border="0" alt="" /></a></h3>
<p><strong style="font-size: 12px;">Description:</strong><span style="font-size: 12px;"> </span>Mpstor is a leading developer of storage and cloud management software products since 2006, <span style="line-height: 1.3em;">providing solutions through hardware OEMs and System Integrators (as well as direct) to data </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">centres who are seeking a flexible, scalable and resilient platform on which to build a storage, </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">public cloud or private cloud service.</span></p>
<p>Mpstor’s core expertise is in software-defined storage, which provides the service consumer with <span style="line-height: 1.3em;">invisible, programmable and automated storage infrastructure, creating the perception of infinite </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">flexibility in terms of scale and quality of service. Through it’s patented Virtual Block Store (VBS) </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">technology, the ‘intelligence’ in the storage service is abstracted from the underlying storage device </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">and runs as a virtual software device manager. This allows any number of storage services to be </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">deployed quickly across shared, commodity hardware, increasing flexibility and asset utilization </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">while reducing opex and capex costs. </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">Mpstor’s engineers have storage in their DNA, many having over twenty years of software and </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">hardware storage design experience. We pride ourselves in providing reliable, easy-to-use and </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">easy-to-support software products and we work closely with our OEM and system integrator </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">partners to deliver full turnkey solutions.</span></p>
<p><strong style="font-size: 12px;">Tasks:</strong><span style="font-size: 12px;"> </span>MPS is leading two WPs: WP3 (SDS Toolkit) and WP6 (Dissemination). Thanks to their <span style="line-height: 1.3em;">expertise in Software-defined Storage in their Orkestra product they will will lead the disaggrega</span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">tion of computing and storage resources thanks to SDS in WP3. They will design APIs in WP2 and </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">WP3 to enable SDS services to enable efficient virtualized analytics applications. MPS will also </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">lead the dissemination and exploitation activities in WP6.</span></p>
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<h3><a name="ida" style="background-image: url('http://cloudspaces.eu/media/editors/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/themes/advanced/skins/default/img/items.gif');"></a>IDIADA Automotive Technology SA (IDA) <a href="http://www.applusidiada.com/en/" target="_blank"><img src="images/ico-link-small.png" border="0" alt="" /></a></h3>
<p><strong style="font-size: 12px;">Description:</strong><span style="font-size: 12px;"> </span>IDIADA, as a global partner to the automotive industry, provides complete solutions for auto<span style="line-height: 1.3em;">motive development projects worldwide. IDIADA’s Technical Centre is located 70 km south of </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">Barcelona (Spain), having subsidiaries and branch offices in several European, American and </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">Asian countries with a total work force of more than 1800 employees world-wide in 24 coun</span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">tries. The core services IDIADA provides are: Engineering, Proving Ground and Homologation. </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">Main fields of engineering activity are power train, emissions, noise & vibration, vehicle dynam</span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">ics, electronics, fatigue & durability and passive safety. Additionally, IDIADA has also a high level </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">of international recognition even in non-European countries: South America, Japan, Israel, Saudi </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">Arabia, Gulf Countries, etc. It is able of carrying out tests according to standards valid for self-</span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">certification (USA, Canada, and Australia). The IT department is responsible for developing and </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">maintaining of all enterprise applications, currently has a team of twenty people that support 1800 </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">users spread across 24 different countries.</span></p>
<p><strong style="font-size: 12px;">Tasks:</strong><span style="font-size: 12px;"> </span>The main tasks assigned to IDIADA are in WP2, where the validation of the IOStack toolkit <span style="line-height: 1.3em;">will be addressed through our use case. The intent is to provide a real scenario in which the </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">outcomes of the project will be tested and evaluated.</span></p>
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<h3><a name="gdp" style="background-image: url('http://cloudspaces.eu/media/editors/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/themes/advanced/skins/default/img/items.gif');"></a>GridPocket (GDP) <a href="http://www.gridpocket.com/" target="_blank"><img src="images/ico-link-small.png" border="0" alt="" /></a></h3>
<p><strong style="font-size: 12px;">Description:</strong><span style="font-size: 12px;"> </span>GridPocket SAS is a venture capital founded, fast growing, technology company, created in 2009, <span style="line-height: 1.3em;">and specialized in the energy efficiency web applications. The company has its R&D offices in </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">France and Poland, and it is active on the European energy market. GridPocket is one of the </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">very first companies in the world to provide highly scalable value added service platforms dedi</span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">cated to the smart metering applications. GridPocket core technology includes high performance </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">data processing, energy predictive expert systems and consumer’s behavioral analysis protocols. </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">GridPocket has been labeled “Innovate Enterprise” by CapEnergies, a national competitive clus</span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">ter, founded, among the others, by EDF (French Electricity Utility) and CEA (Atomic Energy </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">Commission). It has been awarded grants for a pilot deployment in the south of France. The </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">research project initiated and coordinated by GridPocket (“Grid-Teams”) has won a prestigious </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">French national award “Green Digital Growth Award” in 2011. GridPocket cooperates with large </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">research centers such as Telecom ParisTech, Eurecom, Mines ParisTech, INRIA, and University </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">of Life Science in Warsaw (SGGW). GridPocket contributes its technological expertise in energy-</span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">related value added services to the activities of several public-interest organizations, including </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) and CRE (French Energy Regulations </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">Commission).</span></p>
<p><strong style="font-size: 12px;">Tasks:</strong><span style="font-size: 12px;"> </span>The main tasks assigned to GridPocket are in WP2, where the validation of the IOStack <span style="line-height: 1.3em;">toolkit will be addressed through our use case. The intent is to provide a real scenario in which </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">the outcomes of the project will be tested and evaluated.</span></p>
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<h3><a name="arc" style="background-image: url('media/editors/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/themes/advanced/skins/default/img/items.gif');"></a>ARCTUR (ARC) <a href="https://www.arctur.si/" target="_blank"><img src="images/ico-link-small.png" border="0" alt="" /></a></h3>
<p><strong style="font-size: 12px;">Description:</strong><span style="font-size: 12px;"> </span>Established in 1992, Arctur has progressed to become the main Slovenian commercial supplier of <span style="line-height: 1.3em;">HPC (High Performance Computing) services and solutions. Arctur has its own HPC infrastruc</span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">ture to be used as the technological foundation for advanced HPC and Cloud computing solutions </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">and innovative web services in a distributed, high-redundancy environment. The company has </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">extensive experience in server virtualization and deployment, integration of disparate IT-systems, </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">IT support of project-management and server farm leverage for the deployment of Software as a </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">Service (SaaS), specialised for small and media enterprises (SME). </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">Understanding the importance of continuous progress, Arctur has its own R&D department, reg</span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">istered with the Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS). Arctur is involved in joint R&D projects with </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">research institutes, universities and other R&D organizations from EU and globally, currently we </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">are partners in two FP7 projects from I4MS initiative: Fortissimo and CloudFlow. The research </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">areas covered are directly implemented in various real-life solutions and products, e.g. web and </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">mobile applications, easy to use interfaces for HPC, ICT security and Cyber Physical Systems. </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">Other research areas include applied mathematics, numerical simulations, advanced statistics, and </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">HPC/Cloud computing.</span></p>
<p><strong style="font-size: 12px;">Tasks:</strong><span style="font-size: 12px;"> </span>The main tasks assigned to Arctur are in WP2, where the validation of the IOStack toolkit <span style="line-height: 1.3em;">will be addressed through our use case. The intent is to provide an IaaS infrastructure in our data </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">center in which the outcomes of the project will be tested and evaluated. In particular, Arctur will </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">offer a Big Data Analytics as a Service infrastructure over OpenStack Sahara thanks tou IOStack </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">SDS software. Arctur data center aims to become a realistic playground for real experiments in the </span><span style="line-height: 1.3em;">IOStack project.</span></p>
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