Unité Réseaux du CNRS
Computer Networking - Saint-Martin-d'Hères, Rhone-Alpes, France
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Unité Réseaux du CNRS Details
UREC, Unité REseaux du CNRS, was a Unité Propre de Service (UPS) of the CNRS from 1990 to 2010. A UPS is a unit, managed as a research laboratory, which is not research but provides services. In the case of UREC, which was a cross national unity, the services were for all other services and laboratories of the CNRS, with strong links with universities and other public research organizations. The activity of the unit covering the following areas: - infrastructure and basic services network, with active participation in the national network with RENATER, - Internet services, - computer security, - of grid computing, with active participation in EGEE, - software used or developed in the laboratory with the PLUME project. Through its mission, she had a role: - Council with the establishment of national guidelines, - Test, sometimes development and deployment of innovative solutions, - Participation or project management, - Representation of the CNRS in national and international authorities - Training - Sharing of skills, - Computer community animation . The unit brought together a group of software engineers (2 initially, up to 20 in 2004, a dozen on average) often experts in one or more thematic areas of the unit.
