1. Research Group SA-4a Partners: INRIA, UCO Task (JPA 03): 4.4 Fault-Tolerance and Robustness Topic: Fault-Injection and Robustness Assessment for Grid Services Main Responsible: Sebastien Tixeuil (INRIA) Scientific contents: –Fault-injection tool for Grid Applications –Stress-test tool for Grid services –Experimental evaluation –Input to the design of Fault-tolerant mechanisms on Grid –Predictive models for failure handling Possible Papers: –1 paper to DSN 2007 or SRDS 2007 Potential Short visits: –2 visits, one in each direction

2. RG - UOC and ZIB Papers - old: –Artur Andrzejak, Patricio Domingues, Luis Moura Silva, –Artur Andrzejak, Patricio Domingues, Luis Moura Silva, Classifier-Based Capacity Prediction for Desktop Grids (presented at Pisa IW) –Artur Andrzejak, Patricio Domingues, Luis Moura Silva, –Artur Andrzejak, Patricio Domingues, Luis Moura Silva, Predicting Machine Availabilities in Desktop Pools (NOMS 2006) Papers - new: >Artur Andrzejak, Luis Moura Silva, Deterministic Models of Software Aging and Optimal Rejuvenation Schedules >10th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2007) >also CoreGRID Technical Report 047 >work in progress on a paper for ICAC 2007 (UCO, ZIB, and Jordi Torres, UPC)

3. RG - UOC and ZIB Research Exchange Programme: –Artur Andrzejak visited UCO in April 2006 for 3.5 weeks Fellowship –The new fellow Junjie Peng (starting March 1st 2007) will partially work on this topic