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The Coach project will be coordinated by the Professor Alain Greiner from 
Université Pierre et Marie Curie.
Alain Greiner is the initiator and the main architect of the SoCLib project.
This ANR plat-form for virtual prototyping of MPSoCs involved 6 industrial companies 
(including ST Microelectronics and Thales) and ten academic laboratories 
(5 of them are involved in the Coach project).
The SoCLib project was managed by Thales, but the technical coordination has been done
by Alain Greiner, that has a good experience in coordinating large technical projects
in both industrial and academic contexts:

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He received the "Docteur es Sciences" degree from University Denis DIDEROT
in 1982 after working six years at Commissariat a l' Energie Atomique.
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From 1986 to 1990, he worked for the french BULL company, as team leader,
in charge of designing the Basic Processing Unit for the BULL 
DPS7000 computer, the most powerfull mainframe from the family.
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In 1990, Alain Greiner joined UPMC, as Professor and became the head of the
MASI laboratory in 1994. From 2000, he was the head of the Hardware Department
of the LIP6 laboratory.
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From 1990 to 2000, he was the leader of the the ALLIANCE project: This GPL based
cooperative project developped a public domain VLSI/CAD system that has been used 
in more than 200 universities worlwide, for education and research.
This project obtained the Seymour Cray award in 1994.
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