INRIA is the main French research institute dedicated to information technology. It networks skills from the fields of information, computer science and technology from the entire French research system. Throughout its six research units in Rocquencourt, Rennes, Sophia Antipolis, Lyon-Grenoble, Nancy and Bordeaux-Lille-Saclay, INRIA has a workforce of 3,500 employees, distributed across 120 joint research projects; in addition to its academic output, INRIA has led to the creation of more than 80 start-ups.
The INRIA groups involved in HiPEAC2 are Saclay (Alchemy), Rennes (ALF) and Lyon (CompSys). Most of the researchers involved in this project have a long history of collaborating together, several researchers having moved from one research unit to another, leading to cross-fertilization and merging of the different research topics and approaches.
The research in these INRIA groups covers a wide range of topics, from processor micro-architecture to compiler optimizations, programming paradigms and methodology issues. Our research groups have made significant contributions in memory and ILP improvement techniques. They are now targeting long-term multi-threaded/multi-core architectures from micro-architecture, reconfigurable architectures for customized accelerators, compilation and programming model perspectives together. INRIA is also working on the practical implementation issues of iterative optimization. In terms of methodology, it is working on thermal modeling for multi-cores, and has significant efforts on compiler and simulation platforms.