Articles by John Maxwell

Helvetios Supercomputer finds new home in Latin America

EPFL is trying to maximize the use of computing infrastructure to end-of-life, contributing to global sustainability in the IT sector. As part of this strategy, the Helvetios cluster has been donated to the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC) in Argentina, to give it a “second life”. Prof. Nicolas Wolovick of […]

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Flexible data centers could support Europe’s net-zero transition

Although electricity-hungry data centers are often seen as a growing energy burden, an EPFL School of Engineering study suggests that they could also help Europe cut carbon emissions by integrating renewable power and reducing energy waste. According to the study, led by the group of Industrial Process and Energy Systems […]

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On power for computing and computing for power

Giovanni De Micheli ©, EcoCloud EPFL “It’s a UNIX system, I know this” screamed Lex in the epic finale of Spielberg’s Jurassic Park. Then, with few command-line clicks she saved her family, friends and possibly the whole of humanity from a miscarriage of technology aimed to recreate dinosaurs for profit. […]

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ACM Award for doctoral thesis

Congratulations to Dr. Alessandro Tempia Calvino, who received the ACM SIGDA best dissertation award for his doctoral thesis, as a member of Prof. Giovanni De Micheli’s Laboratory of Integrated Systems. This award was given at the Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE) conference in Verona. Read more about Technology Mapping and Optimization Algorithms for Logic Synthesis […]

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David Atienza elected to Academia Europaea

Following a competitive recommendation and peer-review process, EPFL professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering David Atienza has been elected to the prestigious Pan-European Academy of Humanities Letters and Sciences. The not-for-profit Academia Europaea, founded in 1988, aims to advance excellence in scholarship in the humanities; law; the economic, social, and political […]

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