Previous Research Projects

Albatross

The goal of the Albatross project is to better understand application behavior on wide-area networks. A recent technology trend is connecting clusters over wide-area links. This raises issues such as fault tolerance, performance, and programmability, which are being addessed in this project.

CAVEStudy

CAVEStudy is a project in which we are studying how to allow scientists to interactively steer a virtual reality environment. It allows interactive and immersive analysis of a simulation running on a remote computer.

Gridlab

The GridLab project develops an easy-to-use, flexible, generic and modular Grid Application Toolkit (GAT), enabling today's applications to make innovative use of global computing resources. The project is based on two principles, (i) the co-development of infrastructure with real applications and user communities, (ii) dynamic use of grids.

ICWall

The ICWall focuses on visualization and scalable projection technologies. It aims at developing a tiled display, a software environment for this display, and applications within physics and biomedical sciences for using it.

Lobster

The (EU FP6) LOBSTER project will develop monitoring stations and deploy them in various places on European backbone links. They will be used for security applications and Internet measurements. Based on passive monitoring, the LOBSTER infrastructure will be unique in Europe and one of only two such infrastructures in the world today.

Manta

Manta is a high-performance implementation of Java, intended for parallel applications. The Manta system contains a native Java compiler and a highly-efficient RMI implementation.

Noah

A Honeypot is a decoy host that has no other function than to lure attackers in order to obtain a signature of the attack that can be used to stop it. The (EU FP6) Noah project aims to design a Pan-European Network of Advanced Honeypots that cooperate to detect intrusion attempts. The honeypots exchange information in order to effectively combat cyberattacks.

Orca

Orca is a language for parallel programming on distributed-memory systems, based on the shared data-object model. This model is a simple and portable form of object-based distributed shared memory.