Christine Morin

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

Coordinator of Contrail European project (3-year FP7 Integrated Project started in October 2010)

Scientific coordinator of XtreemOS  European project (4-year FP6 Integrated Project June 2006 - September 2010)

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
• Green 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.

• Cloud computing
• Contrail software stack providing elastic PaaS services over an IaaS cloud federation
• Snooze self-organizing energy aware virtual machine management for IaaS clouds
• Themis: economy-based automatic resource scaling for cloud systems
  
• Distributed operating system for Grids
  
• Vigne distributed system for large scale dynamic grids
• XtreemOS Linux based distributed operating system providing native virtual organization support
• Single system image operating system for clusters
• Kerrighed Linux based operating system for high performance computing on clusters
• Creation of Kerlabs spin-off  in October 2006 for providing commercial services related to Kerrighed technology

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 (last update February 2012) (bibtex file)

PhD Students

• Stefania Costache (since May 2010, CIFRE grant with EDF R&D)
• Eugen Feller (since December 2009, INRIA grant)
• Djawida Dib (since October 2010, INRIA & Brittany council grant)
  
• Former PhD students

Projects and collaborations

• European projects

• Contrail FP7 Integrated Project partially funded by the European Commission (since October 2010) on cloud computing
  
• XtreemOS FP6 Integrated Project partially funded by the European Commission (June 2006 - September 2010)  on grid computing
• Scalus (since 2009) on distributed storage systems
• EIT ICT Labs - RMAC activity on resource management across clouds (2012 activity as part of the cloud computing research line)
  

• 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 (2009 - 2011)
  
• Participant in the UNCONV INRIA associated team between PARIS project team and Prof. Xu at ICT/CAS, Beijing, China (2008 - 2009).
• 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)
  

• 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

• Cloud Computing
• Snooze self-organizing energy aware virtual machine manager for IaaS clouds (soon in open source)
  
• Resilin elastic Map/Reduce over multiple IaaS clouds (soon in open source)
• Contrail Virtual Execution Platform (VEP) (soon in open source)
  
• Grid Computing
• 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)
• Cluster Computing
  
• Kerrighed Linux-based single system image operating system (in open source)

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 (October 1998 -  December 1999) 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 associate professor position at IFSIC (University of Rennes I). Since September 2002, I have held a senior researcher position at INRIA. From July to December 2009, I was the scientific leader of the PARIS project-team at INRIA Rennes  - Bretagne Atlantique. Since January 2010, I have been the head of the Myriads INRIA project-team.