Gabriele Manoli studies water supplies, energy exchange and the carbon cycle in urban and suburban systems. His interdisciplinary approach unites environmental technology, infrastructure and urban planning. He is currently investigating the worldwide trend towards urban densification and the effects of altering the urban climate (e.g. through greening measures). In collaboration […]

Having come through a heatwave it is easy to forget that humans are not the only ones that need to shelter from oppressive heat. Animals suffer too, and huge mechanical infrastructures like railways, even major runways. But what about computers? From the beginning, data centers have faced problems with cooling. […]

EcoCloud partner Microsoft Research have announced the laureates of their PhD Fellowships, including Simla Harma for her work on Cloud Infrastructure. Having won a Google Scolarship in 2021, Simla can lay claim to a unique achievement, in being funded by two of IT’s largest and most influential corporations. Simla is […]

We at the EPFL EcoCloud Center condemn the brutal crackdowns against people protesting the Iranian regime and the actions of its so-called morality police. In particular we condemn the violent repression of students and academic staff at universities in Iran. These actions are in violation of basic human rights and […]

The ETH Board has announced a joint initiative in the strategic areas of Energy, Climate and Environmental Sustainability and Engagement and Dialogue with Society: UrbanTwin – A digital twin for urban infrastructure, assessing the effectiveness of climate-related policies and actions Urban areas are responsible for 75% of greenhouse gas emissions, […]

Today EPFL inaugurated its new heating plant, which has the capacity to heat and cool the Lausanne campus solely by drawing water from Lake Geneva and recovering excess heat from a connected data center. The ceremony was attended by local political leaders including Vassilis Venizelos, who is a Vaud Canton […]

On the 9th of December, 2021 the world of IT security abruptly went into a state of shock. An alarming message was spreading like wildfire:     RCE 0-day exploit found in log4j    For the uninitiated, there is a lot to unpack here. “RCE” stands for remote code execution: similar to […]

Featured talk at EPFL: UGraalVM’s full power in the Database Starting with Oracle Database 21c, developers can execute JavaScript within the database. This functionality is enabled by the Multilingual Engine (MLE), powered by GraalVM, and enables Oracle APEX 20.2 to be the first (and only) low code framework on the […]