The XtreemOS consortium composition is a balance between academic and industrial partners interested in designing and implementing the XtreemOS components (Linux extensions to support VOs and Grid OS services), packaging and distributing the XtreemOS system on different hardware platforms, promoting and providing user support for the XtreemOS system, and experimenting with Grid applications using the XtreemOS system. Different end-users are involved in XtreemOS project, providing various test cases in scientific and business computing domains.

Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (CDC)

CDC is an original structure, unique in Europe, combining in the same financial institution: public service activities (management of savings funds, funding of social housing, urban renovation, backup of small and medium size enterprises funds) and competitive activities (principally undertaken by subsidiary specialized professional bodies such as banking and financing activities, individual insurance, services and engineering for regional development).
The existing relations between the public and private parts of CDC allow for the elaboration of flexible and imaginative solutions to respond to new needs, to the challenges of the markets globalization and of the European integration Management of projects on behalf of third parties, which is a traditional task that CDC performed since 1816.

Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA)

INRIA, the French national institute for research in computer science and control, is dedicated to fundamental and applied research in information and communication science and technology (ICST). The Institute also plays a major role in technology transfer by fostering training through research, diffusion of scientific and technical information, development, as well as providing expert advice and participating in international programs. The Institute’s strategy closely combines scientific excellence with technology transfer. INRIA’s chief goal for 2003-2007 is to achieve major scientific and technological breakthroughs in seven priority grand challenges, among which two are directly related to XtreemOS objectives: Designing and mastering the future network infrastructures and communication services platforms, and Combining simulation, visualization and interaction. INRIA develops many partnerships with industry and fosters technology transfer and entrepreneurship in the field of ICST.

The PARIS research group (http://www.irisa.fr/paris) at INRIA Rennes will contribute to XtreemOS, bringing expertise in the areas of distributed system, operating system and grid computing. 

Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)

Formed by Royal Charter in 2007 (by combining CCLRC and PPARC), the Science and Technology Facilities Council is one of Europe's largest multidisciplinary research organisations supporting scientists and engineers world-wide. The Council operates world-class, large scale research facilities and provides strategic advice to the UK government on their development. It also manages international research projects in support of a broad cross-section of the UK research community.  The Council also directs, coordinates and funds research, education and training.

Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)

The National Research Council (CNR) is a public organization; its duty is to carry out, promote, spread, transfer and improve research activities in the main sectors of knowledge growth and of its applications for the scientific, technological, economic and social development of the Country.

The Institute of Information Science and Technologies (ISTI) is an institute of the Italian National Research Council (CNR). The Institute is located in the CNR Research Area of Pisa. ISTI was constituted in September 2000 as a result of a merger between the Istituto CNUCE-CNR and the Istituto di Elaborazione dell’Informazione (IEI-CNR). ISTI is named in honor of Prof. Alessandro Faedo, former Rector of the University of Pisa and President of CNR, in recognition of his important contribution to the advancement of Information Science and Technologies in the Italian academic communities. The Institute became fully operational in 2002.
The ISTI-CNR HPC Laboratory conducts research in various areas of high performance computing, with a focus on parallel programming tools and scalable applications for Cluster of Workstations and the Grid. The laboratory is funded by national and EC agencies, and industry projects that span many areas, including Grid programming and data-intensive computing (Data Mining and Web Information Retrieval). The HPC lab has a key role in several initiatives on Grid Computing: GRID.IT, CoreGrid, NextGrid, GridCoord, Grid@Asia, the Global Grid Forum.

European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS)

Created in July 2000, European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) is Europe's premier aerospace and defence company and No. 2 worldwide. 2001 EADS revenues amounted to 30,8 billion €, of which 80% is in civil activities and 20% in the military sector. EADS employs more than 100,000 people in over 70 sites in France, Germany, Great Britain and Spain. The Corporate Research Centre of EADS (CRC), with sites in Germany and France, provides world-class research capabilities in main aeronautics research topics.
EADS has acquired a wide knowledge of advanced simulations techniques, especially in the field of wave propagation phenomena. They have a huge experience in the integration of such analysis techniques in industrial distributed environment – from CAD processing to high-end visualisation through high performance computing systems. In the past five years, a significant experience has been gained in the development and usage of grid middleware – from defining strategies & policies inside an organization to setting up user oriented portals for day-to-day operations. As our main focus is to feed the EADS business units with new research outputs, an extensive experience in Technology transfer and collaboration has been gained during our last European experiences (EMCP2, JACO3, EUROGRID and DAMIEN).

Electricité de France (EDF)

Electricité de France (EDF) was set up in 1946 out of the desire to have a national electrical utility that could help rebuild the country after the Second World War. Since its creation, the company has had the responsibility for generating, transmitting and distributing electricity in France. Today, the company is internationalising its activities, EDF is present in more than 22 countries, where it supplies more than 42,9 million customers. Almost 200 000 employees contribute to the activity. The aim of the EDF’s R&D Division is to keep electricity costs competitive, to prepare the generating facilities of the future, to enhance the quality of supply while preserving the environment, as well as to develop innovative solutions with the customer in mind. The variety of these objectives has led EDF to set up a strong R&D function, including multidisciplinary knowledge, and with a balance between basic research and industrial applications. More than 2300 persons work for EDF R&D. Among them, 75% are researchers and executives, more than 96 areteaching researchers and 55 are PhD students.
EDF-R&D develops, validates and distributes internally its general coding for mechanics and thermo-mechanics of structures (Code_Aster®), fluid mechanics and aéraulique (thermodynamics common solver and Syrthes), nondestructive testing, neutronics, CAD and engineering tools (notably around PDMS™), and technical data management systems. Application domains cover all energy aspects (nuclear, fossil fuels, hydraulics) and civil engineering works or associated geotechnical works.

Edge-IT (EDGE)

Edge-IT/Mandriva is one of the three commercial Linux distribution editors and the only non American. The company offers customers in the small office, home office (SoHo), small and medium size enterprise, government and educational sectors a set of GNU Linux and Open-Source software and related services, user-friendly and highly competitive information technologies at a very attractive total cost of ownership. Its Linux distribution is well known around the world. Edge-IT products are translated in more than 60 languages and distributed in 140 countries. The company carries two lines of products, one for home and soho users, distributed through retail and one for corporation and organizations. Edge-IT has an R&D group of 30 engineers focusing on Linux distribution edition, administration and installation tools and distribution customisation for large customers. Edge-IT wishes to dramatically increase its productivity and reactivity by developing new tools, products technologies. It believes that by increasing its efficiency, it has the potential of drastically change the market and increase opens source software market penetration. Thus Edge-IT views this project as critical and strategic to both its own development and that of the open source market share.
Edge-IT offers a commercial Linux distribution used around the world and is well versed in working with Linux.

NEC High Performance Computing Europe GmbH (NEC)

NEC has distributed high performance computing systems in Europe since 1987 and provides wide-ranging support services and system integration. NEC’s product portfolio includes SX series supercomputers, TX series high performance servers and Linux clusters, which are mainly used for scientific and technical computing tasks in industry and research. NEC High Performance Computing Europe (HPCE) was founded in February 2003, formerly known as NEC European Supercomputer Systems, established in 1989. The European headquarter is in Düsseldorf, with branch offices located in Paris, London, Amsterdam, Lugano and Milan. NEC Corporation was founded 1899 and is one of the world's leading providers of internet, broadband network and enterprise business solutions dedicated to meeting the specialized needs of its diverse and global base of customers. Ranked as one of the world's top patent-producing companies, NEC delivers tailored solutions in the key fields of computer, networking and electron devices, by integrating its technical strengths in IT and Networks, and by providing advanced semiconductor solutions through NEC Electronics Corporation. The NEC Group employs more than 140,000 people worldwide.
NEC-HPCE has great competence in Linux kernel and system development, and the experience as system integrator and high performance solutions provider.

SAP

Founded in 1972, SAP is the recognized leader in providing collaborative business solutions for all types of industries and for every major market. Headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, SAP is the world's largest inter-enterprise software company, and the world's third-largest independent software supplier overall. SAP employs over 34,000 people in more than 50 countries. SAP Corporate Research is a worldwide organization responsible for researching, understanding, and developing new technologies and processes that may affect the future of SAP business applications.
SAP has an in-depth knowledge of the real-world challenges and needs from its over 96,000 systems installations worldwide.

Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC)

BSC-CNS is the Spanish National Supercomputing Center. Established in 2005, it has inherited all the tradition of CEPBA (European Center for Parallelism of Barcelona) and hosts MareNostrum, the powerful supercomputer ranked the first in Europe and the 5th in the world according to the Top500 list of June 2005. The mission of BSC is to investigate, develop and manage information technology in order to facilitate scientific progress. BCS-CNS’ aim is to become a research center in supercomputing (with specific lines in Deep Computing and Computer Architecture) as well as in additional scientific fields that demand high performance computing resources such as Life Sciences and Earth Sciences. Following this multidisciplinary approach, BSC-CNS brings together a critical mass of researchers, high performance computing experts and cutting-edge supercomputing technologies in order to foster scientific progress. 
Researchers of the BSC research group (http://www.bsc.es) will contribute to XtreemOS, bringing their expertise in the areas of grid computing and operating system design, with a special focus on the design and implementation application execution and resource management.

Universität Ulm (ULM)

The computer science department (http://www-vs.informatik.uni-ulm.de) of the Universitaet Ulm, Germany offers programs leading to BSc, MSc, and PhD degrees. The faculty consists of 19 Professors.

The distributed systems department, headed by Prof. Dr. P. Schulthess, performs research in Distributed Operating Systems, Lean System Design, Virtual Presence Platforms, Distributed Adaptive Services, Object-Based Middleware, and Quality of Service in Mobile Networks. Our specialty is design and implementation of lean high-performance OSs for clusters. We have built an own native OS (Plurix) implementing a transactional distributed shared heap (www.plurix.de). The OS executes speculative transactions to hide network latency. We have also experience with speech processing and multiplayer games. A second research area covers object-based middleware systems for supporting non-functional properties, like fault-tolerance, scalability and quality of service. One of the sub-projects is an infrastructure for dynamic and adaptive services that bears similarities to grid systems.

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VUA)

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is a broadbased university in which education and research are closely interrelated. It enjoys a strong international reputation in all kinds of research areas.
VU Amsterdam’s emphasis on innovation is reflected in the way resources and expertise are combined in larger, multidisciplinary programmes, resulting in university-wide areas of focus established over the last few years.
The Computer Systems group at the Vrije Universiteit is following two major strands of research: one on distributed systems and one on cluster and grid computing. The distributed systems group is headed by Prof. Andrew Tanenbaum and Prof. Maarten van Steen. The main emphasis is on the design, development, and evaluation of techniques for large-scale systems. The group has a long-standing tradition in systems research and is renowned for their work on Amoeba, Minix, and Globe. In the past decade, there has been a shift from traditional distributed systems to systems that span the Internet and on topics concerning security, support of various kinds of wireless and wired networks, heterogeneity of participating nodes, and, above all, decentralization of processes, data, and control.
The cluster and Grid computing group is headed by Prof. Henri Bal and Dr. Thilo Kielmann. The research emphasis is on programming abstractions and efficient communication environments for high-performance applications, both on clusters and on grids. The group is internationally recognized for their work on the Orca parallel language, the MagPIe library, the Manta and Ibis platforms for high-performance Java, as well as their work on the Grid Application Toolkit (GAT).

XLAB

XLAB was founded in the year 2001 as a spin-off from the research department of Digital Communication and Computer Networks of Jozef Stefan Institute, largest Slovenian national research center. The company was recognized for its potential, and was therefore accepted as a member of the Technology park of Ljubljana. In the year 2003 we registered our first research group with the Ministry of Science.
XLAB research and development focus are various distributed systems with emphasis on the GRID computing, distributed multi agent technologies and P2P systems. XLAB is mainly active in the integration of the existing GRID solutions and P2P protocols with extension of agent technologies.

Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin (ZIB)

The Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin (ZIB) is a non-university research institute of the State of Berlin for applied mathematics and computer science. Within the CS department, which is headed by Prof. Alexander Reinefeld, ZIB operates high-performance computers that are among the most powerful in Germany. As a major driving force in science and science-politics, ZIB pushed the establishment of the German E-Science initiative D-Grid, the GGF and E-Grid.
ZIB's research focuses on parallel and distributed systems, more specifically on distributed data management in the Grid, scalable services, and autonomous computing. With providing consulting services to high performance computing users and developing parallel and distributed systems for clusters and Grids, we are in the unique position to be able to evaluate designs from both perspectives, from the HPC users’ point of view and from the point of view of Grid researchers.

T6

T6 is a non-profit organization that designs and performs large projects following all the aspects that lead to the final success, from the feasibility studies to the financing models, to the overall management of the entire process. The T6 mission is to study the development of Information Society promoting studies and innovative projects through the use of the information and telecommunication technologies.
T6 main activities are: Strategic consultant to Public Administrations and to private enterprise regarding innovation of process and use of ICT technologies; Business process reengineering; IT research on Digital Ecosystems and Distributed systems; Studies and analysis in the field of Electronic Commerce; Technology transfer and business support for IT access for the SMEs; Social and user need identification in the field of transport, tourism and environment protection; Statistic and market analysis; E-Government; and Large training events. Recently constituted T6 has a wide portfolio of customers from public administrations to IT partners, working with them in IT distributed project. Within its research activities T6 has managed the dissemination process plan, from the basic project awareness up to the management of international events.

Institute of Computing Technology of Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICT)

The Institute of Computing Technology (ICT) is the premier national research institute on computer science and a leading provider of high performance computing infrastructure technology in China. As the cradle of Chinese IT industry, ICT gave birth to the most powerful supercomputer (Dawning 4000A cluster) of China. ICT scientists started research in grid technology in 1996 and became the leader of a series of national grid research projects. The grid software developed at ICT, namely Vega Grid Operating System, has been successfully deployed in the China National Grid, a nation-scale testbed supporting grid applications from a variety of domains including geological survey, bio-informatics, drug discovery, meteorological service, manufacture, etc.
ICT has been conducting research on resource sharing cross multiple administrative domains in an approach which is fairly relevant to the objectives of XtreemOS. Besides making contributions to the development of XtreemOS, ICT expects that by leveraging XtreemOS, domestic grid applications in China could benefit from it in terms of reduced deployment costs and improved execution efficiency.

Redflag Software (RED)

Since its founding on June 2000, Red Flag Software is growing rapidly and firmly to be the largest Linux company in China. The product lines include high-end Linux server OS, cluster system, desktop OS, embedded system, technical support services and trainings. Red Flag Linux has been adopted by plenty of industries, including government, China post, education, telecommunication, finance, insurance, transport, power, logistics, media, manufacture, etc.
Initiated by Red Flag Software, Asianux was released in 2004 as the enterprise operating system co-developed by three leading Asia Linux OS vendors: Red Flag Software Co., Ltd., Japanese MIRACLE LINUX Corp. and Korean Haansoft Inc. Asianux is becoming the common Linux OS platform in Asia area from day to day. According to IDC market research report, Asianux is the No.2 Linux distribution in Asia and No.3 in the World. Through the Asianux platform, Red Flag Software is contributing more and more advanced technologies to the open source community and software industries in China.

Telefónica I+D (TID)

The Telefónica Group, Spain, (http://www.telefonica.com/home_eng.html) is one of the world’s leading telecommunications companies. Telefónica is the leading operator in the Spanish and Portuguese speaking markets and the sixth largest operator in the world in terms of market capitalisation. Its activities are centred mainly on the fixed and mobile telephony businesses with broadband as the key tool for the development of both of these. Telefónica I+D (TID) is a 100% subsidiary of Telefónica S.A, being Telefónica's R&D arm. The company employs over 1200 persons, 93% of them holding a University degree, being the most important private company in Spain devoted to R&D. Telefónica I+D acts as a catalyst, promoting and dynamizing the Group’s innovative activities. The activities of Telefónica I+D are incorporated and in line with the Telefónica Group’s strategy to lead the digital revolution, focusing on the creation of services, management of the networks, services and businesses and innovation in strategic technologies or others hitherto not present on the market.
When Grid technology appeared, it was focused on distributed applications processing large amounts of data. Nowadays, its architecture encompasses a larger number of applications than the traditional one. Telefonica I+D holds an important experience in newer Grid applications, more user-centric and more focused on distributed services, and also has a wide experience with wireless and fixed networks. Telefónica I+D has participated in several European projects related to Grid and currently coordinates Akogrimo, an Integrated Project based on this technology.

Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf

The computer science institute (http://www.cs.uni-duesseldorf.de) of the Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany offers programs leading to BSc, MSc, and PhD degrees. Currently, the institute consists of 8 Professors belonging to the facultiy of mathematics and natural sciences.
The operating systems department, headed by Prof. Dr. M. Schöttner, performs research in Distributed Operating Systems and Virtual Presence Platforms. Our specialty is design and implementation of lean high-performance OSs for clusters. Together with Prof. Dr. Peter Schulthess (Universitaet Ulm) we have built an own native OS (Plurix) implementing a transactional distributed shared heap (www.plurix.de). The OS executes speculative transactions to hide network latency.