PHLIPPE DENIEL – Head of Lab; CEA/DIF, France

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.

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