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Pedro J. Garcia is currently an Assistant Professor at the Computing Systems Department of University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM), Spain, as well as the Department Vice-Chair. His research interests focus on high-speed interconnection networks for high-performance computing (HPC) systems and datacenters. In particular, he has developed several strategies for high-performance interconnection networks, mainly congestion management schemes and routing algorithms, which have been published in top-ranked journals (IEEE Micro, IEEE TPDS, Elsevier’s JPDC, etc..) and conferences (HPCA, Supercomputing, HIPC, ICPP, etc..).

He has been the coordinator of two research projects, supported respectively by the Spanish Government and by the Government of Castilla-La Mancha, besides participating in other (more than 30) research projects, some of them supported by the European Commission. He has been also the coordinator of a Research & Development Agreement between UCLM and Simula Labs (Norway). He has organized four international workshops (WHTRA, in 2009 and 2011, and HiPINEB in 2015 and 2016), besides organizing a Summer School at UCLM (2010).

Massimo Lamanna received a Ph.D. in High-Energy Physics in 1993 at the Trieste University, Italy. He has over 15 years of experience in the field of scientific computing leading projects in the area of data management, monitoring, user access to grid resources and user/community support within the High-Energy Physics community. Notably he coordinated different activities in the area of distributed computing in the LCG project (LHC experiments) and in the COMPASS and ATLAS experiments.

He also fostered collaboration across user communities (Biology, Climatology, Telecommunication, etc…) and initiated the EGEE User Forum, one of the largest and most active events in the grid computing field. For the last 4 years he is responsible for all the disk-data management operations at CERN. He is responsible for managing the data from the LHC experiments to the CERN computer centres; for the CERN disk farms exchanges with collaborating centres world-wide; to serve data to be processed and recorded to tape; to enable thousands of physicists for the final data analysis.

Philippe Deniel, owns an Engineering Degree from Ecole Centrale Paris. Philippe is a Research Engineer in CEA/DIF since 1998, where he is now heading the lab. Storage Systems. His lab is in charge of managing the daily data production of both CEA/DIF data centers namely Tera and TGCC.

Attentionality to manage daily production, the lab is also developing actively Lustre andHPSS. Philippe is the original developer of NFS-Ganesha an open-source NFS server in user space available in LGPLv3.

Jalil Boukhobza received his electrical engineering degree (with honors) from I.N.E.L.E.C (Institut Nationale d’Electricité et d’électronique), Boumerdès, Algeria in 1999 and M.S and PhD degrees in computer science from the University of Versailles, France, respectively in 2000 and 2004. He was a research fellow at the PRiSM laboratory (University of Versailles) from 2004 to 2006. He is currently Associate Professor at the Univ. Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France since 2006 and member of the Lab-STICC lab. His main research interests include flash and NVM based storage system design, performance evaluation and energy optimization, and embedded operating systems.

Jean-Thomas Acquaviva successively worked for Intel, the University of Versailles and the French Atomic Commission (CEA). He participated to the creation of their joint laboratory the Exascale Research Centre, where he led the Performance Evaluation Team. Today he’s actively contributing to the setting-up and development of the DataDirectNetwork Advanced Technology Centre in France, where he’s still busy on performance by working on the Infinite Memory Engine (IME) project.

Jean-Thomas is the author of twenty publications mostly focused on performance optimization. He holds a PhD from the University of Versailles performed at CEA/DAM.