Articles by: John

David Atienza appointed ACM CSUR Editor-in-Chief

David Atienza, head of the Embedded Systems Lab in the School of Engineering, has been named Editor-in-Chief of the journal Computing Surveys (CSUR) of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). CSUR is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes surveys of and tutorials on areas of computing research or practice. With an […]

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SwissChips – coming to the defense of Swiss chip design

The State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) is to invest CHF26 million in the development of microchip design, with partners ETHZ, EPFL and CSEM contributing a further CHF7.8 million. The SwissChips initiative is setting out to defend Switzerland’s position as a world leader in this vital technology. Of […]

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HEEPocrates featured in EUROPRACTICE report

An article on the HEEPocrates chip has been published in the EUROPRACTICE Activity Report 2023. EUROPRACTICE was launched by the European Commission in 1995 as a successor of EUROCHIP (1989-1995) to enhance European industrial competitiveness in the global market. A detailed breakdown of the chip and its component processes and […]

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EPFL Engineering Industry Day

EcoCloud were happy to participate in the School of Engineering’s Industry Day 2024 Drazen Dujic, Elison Matioli, Francois Maréchal, Mario Paolone all presented. David Atienza and Volkan Cevher also made video contributions. Prof. Volkan Cevher and Xavier Ourvrard of EcoCloud Prof. Volkan Cevher of EcoCloud Xavier Ouvrard at the EcoCloud […]

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Adaptable microchips for data centers: huge gains, new dangers

Demands on cloud services continue to increase but the end of Moore’s law means that transistors are no longer getting significantly smaller every year. Heterogeneity is the answer: servers need flexible platforms. Field-programmable gate arrays or FPGAs, are semiconductor devices so adaptable that they can be reconfigured at runtime. Most […]

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A true measure of datacenter consumption

Prof. Babak Falsafi makes a review of the state-of-the-art in datacenter energy efficiency, and presents his vision of the future. Original article published here in German: Wie effizient sind Rechenzentren wirklich? and in French: Efficacité réelle des centres de données The datacenter market is constantly evolving – and so is […]

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SwissChips takes off!

A new Swiss initiative is coming: SwissChips will look at growing the domestic production of chips in the face of increasingly inbound production amongst the world’s biggest manufacturers. The fact that Switzerland is currently excluded from many European research and industry programs only makes the drive to develop this local […]

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Oracle Labs Presentation

On the 25th January, 2024, Dr. Sungpack Hong gave a presentation detailing Oracle’s approach to the benefits of AI. This talk focused on Oracle Labs’ role in the rapidly changing world of AI and data analytics. We showcased Oracle’s latest research and developments in these areas, emphasizing how AI is […]

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Predicting the future with CloudProphet

If we are going to reduce the carbon footprint of data centers we need to use computing resources more efficiently. If processes always made use of data center facilities in a regular way, it would be an easy game. However, the resources of a data center are used by customers […]

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UrbanTwin: Interview with two key players

The UrbanTwin project brings together the energy, environmental and IT communities, as required for the achievement of its goals. Indeed, a multi-disciplinary approach is required in order to address the complexity of the multi-infrastructure modelling as well as the development of an energy efficient and highly performant IT-based digital twin […]

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