It takes ten times more electricity for ChatGPT to respond to a prompt than for Google to carry out a standard search. Still, researchers are struggling to get a grasp on the energy implications of generative artificial intelligence both now and going forward. Few people realize that the carbon footprint […]

Prof. Giovanni De Micheli has received two awards in the last two months: the IEEE Gustav Robert Kirchoff Award and the election to the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences. In the same time period he has given keynote speeches at HiPEAC and DATE. HiPEAC took the opportunity to interview Prof. […]

Prof. Babak Falsafi was consulted by the Neue Zürcher Zeitung Training and using artificial intelligence consumes huge amounts of energy. Even more efficient algorithms are unlikely to change this. More and better artificial intelligence (AI) is the goal of the major tech companies in the USA. In recent weeks, Open […]

In a keynote talk at the 2025 HIPEAC conference, Giovanni De Micheli, Director of EcoCloud‬, set out his vision for the future of computing systems design, echoing the Olympic motto for faster, higher, stronger systems. Prof. de Micheli emphasized the need for circularity, diversity, and international cooperation. Keynote speech – […]

The tank is almost empty. It contained university entrance exams, complex mathematical problems and, of course, the famous Turing test. But week after week, ChatGPT and competing systems manage to pass all these exams, with increasingly high scores. Hence the idea, launched this week, to find other ways of judging […]

The EPFL AI Center spoke to Dr. Xavier Ouvrard about the EcoCloud Research Facility. AI is not disconnected from materiality, so it requires energy, it requires cooling, it requires a lot of topics that need to be covered by an holistic approach in order to improve the overall sustainability (of […]

The X-HEEP event X-AGORA III was a great success! We were around 35 people in the room and 25 online, from 9 universities and companies. Feel free to watch the entire proceedings below.

According to Prof. Martin Kemp, in a talk he gave at EPFL in 2011, if Leonardo da Vinci looked at ripples of water, long wavy hair or wispy clouds, he always saw the same thing – patterns. To a Renaissance man these patterns were simply different manifestations of similar phenomena. […]

EPFL’s new Kuma supercomputer, which ranks 23rd in the Green500 ranking, illustrates EPFL’s efforts to support cutting-edge research with a low environmental impact. With Kuma, EPFL is helping anchor Switzerland’s position at the forefront of sustainable computing. EPFL’s research labs produce eye-watering amounts of data every day. For instance, those […]