HiePACS
INRIA Bordeaux Sud-Ouest
High-End Parallel Algorithms for Challenging Numerical Simulations
joint INRIA-CERFACS Laboratory on High Performance Computing

Luc GIRAUD Directeur de Recherche-Senior scientist Mail Address :   INRIA-CERFACS   42, Avenue G. Coriolis,   F 31057 Toulouse Cedex 01 Telephone :   +33 5 61 19 30 25 (office)   +33 5 61 19 30 00 (fax) Email: luc.giraud"at"inria.fr

Research Interests

• Numerical Linear Algebra
  
• High performance computing
  
• Parallel iterative methods and preconditioning
  
• Software developments (CG, GMRES and FGMRES packages for real/complex arithmetics)
  
• High performance computing in large industrial applications
  

• Associate editor of SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Appl. (since Jan. 2012)
• SC 11, co-chair of the Applications area
• EuroPar 11, local chair of the parallel numerical algorithms topic




Some projects and collaborations


• France-Berkeley (2010- )
• Topic: Scalable Hybrid Solvers for Large Sparse Linear Systems of Equations on Petascale Architectures
• Academic partners: INRIA (Bacchus, HiePACS) - Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
• RESCUE: (2010- 2014)
• ANR-Blanc project funded by the french ministry of research
• Topic: Resilience for exascale scientific computing
• Academic partners: INRIA : GRAAL, GRAND LARGE and HiePACS
• ADT MaPHyS (2009- 2011)
• Actions de Developpement Technologiques project funded by INRIA
• Topic: Parallel scalable algebraic domain decomposition linear solver software
• MyPlanet network (2008-2012)
• FP7 project funded by Marie Curie ITN Network
• Topic: Massively Parallel Computations of Combustion and Emission Simulations
• Academic partners: CERFACS, ENSEEIHT-IRIT (2008-2010), INRIA (2010-2012), Univ. Cambridge, Univ. Cyprus, Univ. Carlos III Madrid, Technical Univ. Munich
• Industrial partners: Genias Graphics, Rolls-Royce plc UK.
• MOSITER (2009-2010)
• BQR funded by the University of Toulouse
• Topic: MOdeling and Simulation for ITER
• Academic partners: IMT, LAPLACE, LCAR, IRIT
• NUMELEM (2008-2010)
• BQR funded by the University of Toulouse
• Topic: Study new electromagnetic devices with large frequency bandwith.
• Academic partners: LAPLACE (GREM3, LAME), IRIT (APO)
• PhyLeaS (2008- 2009)
• INRIA associate team funded by the INRIA "Associate Team" programme
• Topic: study of parallel hybrid sparse linear solvers
• Academic partners: SCALAPPLIX project-team INRIA Bordeaux - Sud-Ouest research centre and LaBRI (UMR CNRS 5800), Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, USA; Institute of Computational Mathematics Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, TU Brunswick, Germany; Parallel Algorithms and Optimization Group, INPT-IRIT (UMR CNRS 5505), ENSEEIHT, Toulouse; NACHOS project-team INRIA Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée research centre and J.A. Dieudonné Mathematics Laboratory, University of Nice/Sophia Antipolis (UMR CNRS 6621).
• SOLSTICE project (2007-2010)
• ANR-CIS project funded by the french ministry of research
• Topic: Grand challenge simulations and linear solvers
• Academic partners: CERFACS, CNRM-LA, ENSEEIHT-IRIT, LaBRI and LIP-ENS
• Industrial partners: CEA-CESTA, EADS-IW, EDF
• SEISCOPE collaborator
  • Topic: Solution of large sparse linear systems in global offset seismic imaging
• ACI-TLSE Project (2002-2005)
• ACI-GRID project funded by the french ministry of research
• Topic: Expert web site on sparse linear solvers
• Academic partners: CERFACS, ENSEEIHT-IRIT, LaBRI and LIP-ENS
• Industrial partners: CNES, CEA, EADS, EDF and IFP
• MYSHANET Project (1998 - 2000)
• Best practice PST - ESPRIT project funded by the European Commission
• Topic: Parametric studies in multibody simulations on cluster of Windows PCs
• Partners: CEIT, CERFACS, DONERRE and MARZOCCHI
• ODESIM Project (1996-1999)
• HPCN Project - ESPRIT project funded by the European Commission
• Topic: Optimiaztion of multibody mechanism on heterogeneous clusters of workstations
• Partners: CASA/Space Division, CEIT, CERFACS, Centro Reicerche Fiat, Matra Datavision and Siemens
• HIPERCOMABTS Project (1995-1996)
• PCI - ESPRIT project funded by the European Commission
• Topic: Parametric studies in multibody simulations on heterogeneous clusters of workstations
• Partners: CEIT, CERFACS and PIAGGIO
• HPCN3S Project(1994-1996)
• Europort-1 Project - ESPRIT project funded by the European Commission
• Topic: Parallelization of 3D compressible and incompressible CFD codes
• Partners: CERFACS, CISE, EDF, IFP, Simulog and VKI




HiePACS High-End Parallel Algorithms for Challenging Numerical Simulations