The KerData Team is a joint research team of Inria Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique, the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan - Antenne de Bretagne and INSA Rennes. KerData is focusing on Cloud and HPC challenges related to Big Data. It is addressing challenges raised by today's data-intensive high-performance applications and HPC simulations running on post-petascale supercomputers.

• Coordinator: Gabriel Antoniu
• People involved: Inria-KerData

Argonne National Laboratory outside Chicago is the first science and engineering research national laboratory in the United States, receiving this designation on July 1, 1946. It is the largest national laboratory by size and scope in the Midwest. Its Mathematics and Computer Science Department (MCS) works to drive the evolution of leadership computing from petascale to exascale, develop new codes and computing environments, and expand computational efforts to help solve scientific challenges.

• Coordinator: Rob Ross
• People involved: ANL

NCSA is an American state-federal partnership to develop and deploy national-scale cyberinfrastructure that advances science and engineering. NCSA operates as a unit of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, although it provides high-performance computing resources to researchers across the country. NCSA provides leading-edge computing, data storage, and visualization resources.

• Coordinator: Marc Snir
• People involved: NCSA