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SLICES Research Infrastructure

Abstract

The digital infrastructures research community continues to face numerous new challenges towards the design of the Next Generation Internet. This is an extremely complex ecosystem encompassing communication, networking, data management and data intelligence issues, supported by established and emerging technologies such as IoT, 5G/6G, cloud-to-edge computing. Coupled with the enormous amount of data generated and exchanged over the network, this calls for incremental as well as radically new infrastructure design paradigms. Experimentally driven research is more and more required worldwide to address these challenges, which has to be supported by large-scale research infrastructures to make results trusted, repeatable and accessible to the research communities. SLICES-RI (Research Infrastructure), which has been included in the 2021 ESFRI Roadmap, aims to answer these problems by building a large infrastructure needed for the experimental research on various aspects of distributed computing, networking, IoT and 5G/6G networks. It will provide the necessary resources to continuously design, experiment, operate and automate the full lifecycle management of digital infrastructures, data, applications, and services. During this talk, you will discover SLICES-RI, the services it proposes and how you can use or contribute to it.

Bio

Christian Perez Christian Perez is a Senior Inria researcher. He received the MSc (in 1995) and PhD (1999) degrees in Computer Science from ENS Lyon, France. He received the Habilitation à diriger des recherches (HDR) from University of Rennes I, France, in 2006. He was hired as Inria fill time researcher in 2000. Since 2012, he is leading the Avalon research team at LIP (ENS Lyon, France). His research topics include parallel and distributed programming models, application deployment, and resource management. He is a member of the executive board of the Grid’5000 testbed since 2012. With N. Mitton, he co-coordinates the implementation of SLICES-RI and of its French node SLICES-FR. He is a member of the overview board of France Grilles. He is leading the Taranis project of the French PEPR Cloud (“Model, Deploy, Orchestrate and Optimize cloud applications and infrastructures”) and he
participates to the HE ODISSEE project that involves three pan-European infrastructures (HL-LHC, SKAO, and SLICES-RI).