Presenter

François Tessier has been a research scientist at Inria Rennes since 2020. He works in the KerData team on I/O optimization and storage infrastructure modeling for large-scale systems. In 2015, He received a PhD from University of Bordeaux on affinity-aware process placement. Afterwards, he joined Argonne National Laboratory then the Swiss National Supercomputing Center. During these five years, he explored data aggregation techniques for I/O improvement and dynamic provisioning of storage systems for complex workflows. Since 2023, he has been actively involved in NumPEx, which aims to prepare the software stack for France's first Exascale machine.