Christine Morin

Senior scientist INRIA Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique
Myriads research team scientific leader

Co-founder of Kerlabs spin-off created in October 2006 for providing commercial services related to Kerrighed technology

Scientific coordinator of XtreemOS  European project (4-year FP6 Integrated Project started in June 2006)

Contact details

Research interests

• Operating systems, distributed operating systems, large scale dynamic distributed systems 
  

• Fault tolerance, autonomic computing
  
• Virtualisation, resource management
  
• Cluster computing,  Grid computing, Cloud computing

Current Research activities

My present research activities aim at designing and implementing distributed operating systems for distributed computing infrastructures. I target large scale dynamic infrastructures. My goal is to provide systems that are easy to use, to manage and to program. These systems are designed to allow efficient reliable and secure application execution. Fault tolerance and autonomic computing are important topics I am addressing. I am interested in particular in systems providing support for the execution of high performance applications.

• Single system image operating system for clusters
• Kerrighed Linux based operating system for high performance computing on clusters
  
• Distributed operating system for Grids
  
• Vigne distributed system for large scale dynamic grids
• XtreemOS Linux based distributed operating system providing native virtual organization support
• Distributed operating system for federated virtualized infrastructures
  

Former Research Activities

• Reliable Communication Protocols (1987-1990)

• Fault Tolerant Shared Memory Multiprocessor Architectures (1991-2000)
• Fault tolerant bus based shared memory multiprocessor (1990-1994)
• Highly Available DSM architectures (1993-2000)
• Fault tolerant scalable shared memory multiprocessor (COMA architectures) (1991-1994)
• Recoverable software distributed shared memory systems (ICARE) (1993-1996)
• Highly available parallel single level store system (HA-PSLS) (1999-2000)
  

• Network Management (1996-1998)

Publications

A subset of my publications are available on HAL INRIA (see HAL list per year). ***update in progress***

Full list of publications (bibtex file)

PhD Students

• Stefania Costache (since May 2010, CIFRE grant with EDF R&D)
  
• Jérôme Gallard (since October 2007, INRIA grant)
• Sylvain Jeuland (since October 2007, INRIA grant)
• Pierre Riteau (since October 2008, MESR grant)
• Eugen Feller (since December 2009, INRIA grant)
• Former PhD students

Projects and collaborations

• European projects

• XtreemOS FP6 Integrated Project partially funded by the European Commission (since June 2006)
  
• Scalus (since 2009)
  

• International collaborations

• Responsible of the SER-OS INRIA associated team between PARIS project-team and  the SRT team headed by Stephen Scott at ORNL, USA (since 2009)
  
• Participant in the UNCONV INRIA associated team between PARIS project team and Prof. Xu at ICT/CAS, Beijing, China (since 2008).
• Participant in the DataCloud@Work INRIA associated team between Kerdata, Myriads and UPB, Romania (since 2010).
  

• Collaboration with industrial partners

• Collaboration with EDF R&D (since 2000)
  
• Collaboration with Kerlabs 

• National projects

• COOP ANR project funded under the COSINUS programme
  
• ECO-GRAPPE ANR project funded under the ARPEGE programme (since December 2008)
  

• Full list of projects and collaborations

Software

• Kerrighed Linux-based single system image operating system (in open source)
  
• Vigne Grid-ware operating system for large scale dynamic Grids (in open source)
  
• XtreemOS Linux-based Grid operating system providing native support to virtual organizations (in open source)
  
• ANGE/SAMURAAIE

Responsibilities

• Program Chair of CFSE 2009 (Conférence Française sur les Systèmes d'Exploitation)
  

• General chair of EuroSys 2010

• Former responsibilities

Short biography

I received my engineering degree in Computer Science from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA), of Rennes (France), in 1987 and Master and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the University of Rennes I in 1987 and 1990, respectively. In March 1998, I got my Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches in Computer Science from the Université de Rennes 1.

Since 1991, I have held a researcher position at INRIA and have carried out my research activities in the Solidor project (until September 1998) and in the CAPS project (since October 1998) at INRIA Rennes. Since January 2000, I have been a member of the PARIS project-team at INRIA Rennes. From October 2000 to August 2002, I have held a temporary assistant professor position at IFSIC (University of Rennes I). I now hold a senior researcher position at INRIA. From July to December 2009, I have been the scientific leader of the PARIS project-team at INRIA Rennes  - Bretagne Atlantique. Since January 2010, I am the head of the new Myriads research team.