Super Infrastructure for Large-Scale Experimental Computer Science for Cloud/Edge/IoT
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Prototype and conduct reproducible experiments on all hardware and software elements of current and future digital environments at all levels of the Cloud IoT continuum.
Nathalie Mitton, Inria Research Director
Keyword : Cloud, Fog, IoT, open testbed, reproductibility, experimentation
Digital transformation relies on a sophisticated infrastructure of networks, computing and services. The availability, reliability, performance, interoperability and energy efficiency of these systems are major challenges that the digital sciences must meet to foster innovation, sovereignty and industrial competitiveness.
SILECS, the Cloud/Fog/Edge/IoT part of the SLICES-FR platform, enables prototyping and reproducible experiments at all levels of the Cloud IoT continuum. It meets the experimental needs of researchers in networks, systems, telecoms, IoT and other fields. The main objective of SILECS and SLICES-FR is to build a tool for experimentation that fosters the design of new services and applications in distributed computing, edge computing, reprogrammable wired or wireless networks and IoT, using a diversity of technologies on all aspects of the data chain, software or hardware, to meet the needs of the community.
— Missions
— Our researches
— Partners
Consortium
Inria, IMT, CNRS, Université de Lille, INSA de Lyon, Université de Strasbourg, Université de Grenoble Alpes, Sorbonne Université, Université de Toulouse, Nantes Université
— Research team
26 Permanent staff (not funded by the project)
6 project-funded engineers
Our teams in France
— Publications
Articles dans une revue
- Solenne Fortun, Nathalie Mitton, Christian Pérez. Experiment. Innovate. Transform. The future of digital infrastructure starts with SLICES.. Innovation Platform, 2025, 24, pp.16-24. ⟨hal-05409390⟩
Communications dans un congrès
- Mai Huong Do, Millian Poquet, Georges da Costa. FedE-ator : A framework for energy consumption analysis of federated learning in distributed systems. Compas’2025 : Parallélisme / Architecture/ Système, Jul 2025, Bordeaux, France. ⟨hal-05181877⟩
- Cassandre Vey, Adrien van den Bossche, Réjane Dalcé, Georges da Costa, Olivier Negro, et al.. Experimenting IoT-Edge-Cloud- HPC Continuum on Existing Platforms. 2025 IEEE 25th International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing Workshops (CCGridW), IEEE, May 2025, Tromsø Norway, Norway. ⟨10.1109/CCGridW65158.2025.00026⟩. ⟨hal-05147272⟩
Rapports
- Georges da Costa, Amina Guermouche. Measurement methods sheet, WG6 Exa-Soft. Université de Toulouse; Université de bordeaux. 2025. ⟨hal-05272179⟩
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