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Xavier Besseron
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| Faculté ou Centre | Faculté des Sciences, des Technologies et de Médecine | ||||||
| Department | Département Ingénierie | ||||||
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Université du Luxembourg Maison du Nombre 6, Avenue de la Fonte L-4364 Esch-sur-Alzette |
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| Bureau sur le campus | MNO, E04 0415-040 | ||||||
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| Téléphone | (+352) 46 66 44 5418 | ||||||
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| Langues parlées | English, French | ||||||
| Séjours de recherche en | Germany, France, Luxembourg, USA | ||||||
Since October 2012 : Research Unit in Engineering Science, University of Luxembourg
October 2011 to October 2012 : Computer Science and Communication Research Unit, University of Luxembourg
Subjects: Fault Tolerance for highly distributed and volatile computing environments Parallelization of the Discrete Particle Method (DPM) software
Supervisors: Prof. Pascal Bouvry and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernhard Peters
October 2010 to September 2011 : Postdoc Researcher: Network Based Computing Lab, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Subject: Fault Tolerance for MVAPICH2 and Infiniband networks, Supervisor Prof. DK Panda
October 2006 to April 2010 : Laboratoire d’Informatique de Grenoble (LIG) – MOAIS INRIA p, PhD in Computer Science
Subject: Fault Tolerance and Dynamic Reconfiguration for Large Scale Distributed Applications
Supervisors Thierry Gautier and Denis Trystram
Software Development
Kaapi Kaapi is a C++ library that allows to execute multithreaded computation with data flow synchronization between threads. The library is able to schedule fine/medium size grain program
on distributed machine.
Contributions: Heterogeneous communications; Fault-tolerance mechanisms; Static scheduling module; Deployment organization; Dynamic reconfiguration concepts.
http://kaapi.gforge.inria.fr
MVAPICH2 MVAPICH2 is a high performance MPI-2 implementation for InfiniBand, 10GigE/iWARP and RDMAoE based on MPICH2.
Contributions: Fault-tolerance and migration mechanisms; Virtual filesystems for Checkpoint/
Restart; Launcher evaluation and improvement
http://mvapich.cse.ohio-state.edu/
DPM The Discrete Particle Method (DPM) is an advanced numerical simulation tool which deals with both motion and chemical conversion of particulate material such as coal or biomass in
furnaces.
Contributions: Parallelization for both conversion and dynamics modules; Improved design
http://dpm.gforge.uni.lu/
Grid user: Grid’5000 & Grid Plugtests
Grid’5000 Grid’5000 is the French national grid for research purpose. It counts more than 5000 cores distributed over 10 sites. https://www.grid5000.fr
User report https://www.grid5000.fr/mediawiki/index.php/Special:G5KReportsUMS?
menu=renderreport&username=Xbesseron
Grid Plugtests Participation in the IVth and Vth Grid Plugtests contests
http://moais.imag.fr/membres/xavier.besseron/plugtests.html
Teaching assistant
October 2006 to September 2009: Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
Description 192 hours to undergraduate students
Topics: Algorithmics and C programming under UNIX environment
Last updated on: jeudi 19 novembre 2020
Sous presse
Process analysis in thermal process engineering with high-performance computing using the example of grate firing; ; ; ; ; ; ;
in 12th European Conference on Industrial Furnaces and Boilers (in press)
2020
Parallel coupling strategy for multi-physics applications in eXtended Discrete Element Method; ; ;
Scientific Conference (2020, June 18)
Predicting near-optimal skin distance in Verlet buffer approach for Discrete Element Method; ; ; ;
in 10th IEEE Workshop on Parallel / Distributed Combinatorics and Optimization (2020, June)
Detailed Numerical Three-dimensional and Transient Analysis of a Grate Firing Combustion Process by Innovative High Performance Computing; ; ; ; ; ;
in 28th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition (EUBCE) (2020, April 27)
Numerical Analysis of Interaction between a Reacting Fluid and a Moving Bed with Spatially and Temporally Fluctuating Porosity; ; ; ;
Scientific Conference (2020, August 31)
2019
Co-located Partitioning Strategy and Dual-grid Multiscale Approach for Parallel Coupling of CFD-DEM Simulations; ; ; ;
Scientific Conference (2019, June 05)
Security, reliability and regulation compliance in Ultrascale Computing System; ; ; ; ;
in Zomaya, A. Y.; Carretero, J.; Jeannot, E. (Eds.) Ultrascale Computing Systems (2019)
The XDEM Multi-physics and Multi-scale Simulation Technology: Review on DEM-CFD Coupling, Methodology and Engineering Applications; ; ; ; ; ;
in Particuology (2019), 44
A parallel dual-grid multiscale approach to CFD-DEM couplings; ; ; ;
in Journal of Computational Physics (2019), 378
2018
Hydrodynamic Analysis of Gas-Liquid-Liquid-Solid Reactors using the XDEM Numerical Approach; ; ;
in Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering (2018)
High Performance Computing and Big Data analytics in Luxembourg: Overview and Challenges in the EuroHPC horizon;
Presentation (2018, August)
Verlet buffer for broad phase interaction detection in Discrete Element Method; ; ;
Poster (2018, September 24)
Hybrid MPI+OpenMP Implementation of eXtended Discrete Element Method; ; ; ;
in Proc. of the 9th Workshop on Applications for Multi-Core Architectures (WAMCA'18), part of 30th Intl. Symp. on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD 2018) (2018, September)
RapidRMSD: Rapid determination of RMSDs corresponding to motions of flexible molecules; ; ; ; ; ; ;
in Bioinformatics (2018)
UL HPC Tutorial: Performance engineering - HPC debugging and profilling; ; ; ; ; ;
Presentation (2018, June)
A co-located partitions strategy for parallel CFD-DEM couplings; ; ;
in Advanced Powder Technology (2018)
A Parallel Multiscale DEM-VOF Method For Large-Scale Simulations Of Three-Phase Flows; ; ;
in Proceedings of ECCM-ECFD 2018 (2018)
2017
On the performance of an overlapping-domain parallelization strategy for Eulerian-Lagrangian Multiphysics software; ; ; ;
in AIP Conference Proceedings ICNAAM 2017 (2017, September)
Parallelizing XDEM: Load-balancing policies and efficiency, a study; ;
Scientific Conference (2017, September)
Comparing Broad-Phase Interaction Detection Algorithms for Multiphysics DEM Applications; ; ; ; ;
in AIP Conference Proceedings ICNAAM 2017 (2017, September)
2016
HPC or the Cloud: a cost study over an XDEM Simulation; ; ; ;
in Proc. of the 7th International Supercomputing Conference in Mexico (ISUM 2016) (2016)
Modeling of the biomass combustion on a forward acting grate using XDEM; ; ; ;
in Chemical Engineering Science (2016), 142
Numerical study of the influence of particle size and packing on pyrolysis products using XDEM; ; ;
in International Communications in Heat & Mass Transfer (2016), 71
2015
Performance Evaluation of the XDEM framework on the OpenStack Cloud Computing Middleware; ; ; ; ;
in Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, Grid and Cloud Computing for Engineering (2015, February)
A discrete/continuous numerical approach to multi-physics; ; ; ;
in IFAC-PapersOnLine (2015), 28(1), 645-650
Assessing Heat Transfer Through Walls Of Packed Bed Reactors By An Innovative Particle-Resolved Approach; ; ; ; ;
in 18th IFRF Member's Conference (2015)
2014
ATIS: Automated Testing of Installed Software. Or so far, How to validate MPI stacks of an HPC cluster?Presentation (2014, February 01)
ParaMASK: a Multi-Agent System for the Efficient and Dynamic Adaptation of HPC Workloads; ; ; ;
in 14th IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT 2014) (2014, December)
Scale-Resolved Prediction of Pyrolysis in a Packed Bed by the Extended Discrete Element Method (XDEM); ; ; ; ;
in The Ninth International Conference on Engineering Computational Technology (2014)
An Integral Approach to Multi-physics Application for Packed Bed Reactors; ; ; ; ; ;
in 24th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering, ESCAPE 24 (2014)
The extended discrete element method (XDEM) applied to drying of a packed bed; ; ; ; ;
in Industrial Combustion (2014), 14
Beschreibung des Transportes von Schwimmkörpern bei Flutwasser über eine Euler-Lagrange Kopplung; ; ; ; ; ;
in Dresdner Wasserbauliche Mitteilungen (2014)
HPC Performance and Energy-Efficiency of the OpenStack Cloud Middleware; ; ; ;
in Proc. of the 43rd Intl. Conf. on Parallel Processing (ICPP-2014), Heterogeneous and Unconventional Cluster Architectures and Applications Workshop (HUCAA'14) (2014, September)
2013
Unified Design for Parallel Execution of Coupled Simulations using the Discrete Particle Method; ; ;
in Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, Grid and Cloud Computing for Engineering (2013)
Enhanced Thermal Process Engineering by the Extended Discrete Element Method (XDEM); ; ; ; ;
in Universal Journal of Engineering Science (2013), 1
Application of the Extended Discrete Element Method (XDEM) in Computer-Aided Process Engineering; ; ; ; ;
Scientific Conference (2013)
Die Extended Discrete Element Method (XDEM) für multiphysikalische Anwendungen; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Scientific Conference (2013)
Using Data-flow analysis in MAS for power-aware HPC runs; ; ; ;
in Proc. of the IEEE Intl. Conf. on High Performance Computing and Simulation (HPCS'13) (2013)
HPC Performance and Energy-Efficiency of Xen, KVM and VMware Hypervisors; ; ; ;
in Proc. of the 25th Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD 2013) (2013, October)
2012
Monitoring and Predicting Hardware Failures in HPC Clusters with FTB-IPMI; ;
in Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE 26th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops & PhD Forum (2012)
2011
Impact of over-decomposition on coordinated checkpoint/rollback protocol;
in Euro-Par 2011: Parallel Processing Workshops (2011, August)
Can a Decentralized Metadata Service Layer benefit Parallel Filesystems?; ; ; ; ;
in 2011 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (2011, September)
High Performance Pipelined Process Migration with RDMA; ; ;
in 2011 11th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (2011, May)
CRFS: A Lightweight User-Level Filesystem for Generic Checkpoint/Restart; ; ; ; ;
in 2011 International Conference on Parallel Processing (2011, September)
Can Checkpoint/Restart Mechanisms Benefit from Hierarchical Data Staging?; ; ; ;
in Euro-Par 2011: Parallel Processing Workshops (2011, August)
2010
Proactive Fault-Resilience with Process Migration in MVAPICH2: A demonstration with Tachyon; ; ;
Presentation (2010, November)
2009
Fault tolerance and availability awareness in computational grids; ; ; ;
in Fundamentals of Grid Computing: Theory, Algorithms and Technologies (2009)
Optimized Coordinated Checkpoint/Rollback Protocol using a Dataflow Graph Model;
Presentation (2009, January 22)
X-Kaapi : Une nouvelle implémentation eXtrême du vol de travail; ; ;
in Rencontres Francophones du Parallélisme (RenPar'19) (2009, September)
2008
IV Grid Plugtests: composing dedicated tools to run an application efficiently on Grid'5000; ; ; ; ;
Presentation (2008, February 12)
Optimised recovery with a coordinated checkpoint/rollback protocol for domain decomposition applications;
in Modelling, Computation and Optimization in Information Systems and Management Sciences. MCO 2008 (2008, September)
2007
Un protocole de sauvegarde / reprise coordonné pour les applications à flot de données reconfigurables; ; ;
in Technique et Science Informatiques (2007)
Kaapi: A Thread Scheduling Runtime System for Data Flow Computations on Cluster of Multi-Processors; ;
in PASCO '07 Proceedings of the 2007 international workshop on Parallel symbolic computation (2007, July)
2006
CCK : un protocole coordonné de sauvegarde/reprise pour la tolérance aux pannes des applications itératives en calcul numériqueBachelor/master dissertation (2006)
CCK: An Improved Coordinated Checkpoint/Rollback Protocol for Dataflow Applications in Kaapi; ; ;
in 2006 2nd International Conference on Information & Communication Technologies (2006, April)
