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 […]

Satellites are open to attack. All communications systems are vulnerable to hackers by definition, and are protected accordingly, with hardware and software. However, because they reside outside the protection of the Earth’s atmosphere, satellites are perhaps exposed to the mightiest and most unpredictable hacker of all: the Sun. “The Sun’s […]

We are delighted to announce that Prof. Anne-Marie Kermarrec has been appointed to the new role of Associate Vice-president for Doctoral and Lifelong Education (AVP- DLE), a role she will take up in January, 2025. Anne-Marie Kermarrec has led the Scalable Computing Systems Laboratory (SaCS) within the School of Computer […]

At the end of August we were delighted to receive Dr. Rahmani of the UCI Institute for Future Health, University of California, Irvine. His talk, which was entited “Future Health: Harnessing Multimodal Data and GenAI for Health Promotion”, explore how how AI, including generative AI and wearable technology are revolutionizing […]

Prof. Giovanni De Micheli, head of the Integrated Systems Laboratory (LSI), has taken over the scientific direction of the EPFL EcoCloud Center from Prof. David Atienza, head of the Embedded Systems Laboratory (ESL). Prof. De Micheli previously founded and directed the EPFL Integrated Systems Center (SI), and was co-founder and […]

Corintis SA has finished 2nd out of 100 candidates at the TOP 100 Swiss Startup Award 2024: Read more about Corintis and their innovative on-chip cooling: Project Page – Designer Swimwear News feature – the coolest microchips around  

The SDEA efficiency standards have been featured on RTS and SwissInfo as more and more players realise the importance of taking greater control over data centre power usage. “Data centres have become the pillars of the digital economy. However, we don’t know how sustainable their energy consumption is,” says Babak […]

People are making increasingly large demands of “The Cloud”, from ever larger data backups to multiplying numbers of virtual machines. In turn, this means that data centers need to use more energy to power their infrastructure, and even more energy to keep their machines cool. In order to lower their […]