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 […]

On 7 October 2024, this one-day conference will offer a unique opportunity to explore Federal funding programmes and meet their representatives. Federal Offices represent a major source of research funding in Switzerland, in particular at EPFL. They also drive research in specific directions, through topical calls. On October 7, representatives […]

EPFL Professor Anne-Marie Kermarrec has been appointed by French President Emmanuel Macron to the newly established Presidential Science Council. In December 2023 Emmanuel Macron announced the creation of a ‘Presidential Science Council’ to be made up of 14 high-level scientists representing all disciplines. The Elysée Palace announced that the new […]

The State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) is to invest CHF 26 million in the development of chip design, with partners ETHZ, EPFL and CSEM contributing a further CHF 7.8 million. The SwissChips initiative is setting out to defend Switzerland’s position as a world leader in this vital […]

Miguel Peón presented EcoCloud and many of its projects at the EPFL Data Champion Talks on the 18th April. The title of the day was “Green Bytes: Data-Driven Approaches to EPFL Sustainability”. Projects featured in Miguel’s talk: UrbanTwin Heating Bits Midgard SEAMS Download the Presentation

As promised in previous announcements, the new EcoCloud Experimental Space is running, and experiments are underway. The facility is located in the CCT Building, alongside the EPFL Data Center and above the campus central heating plant. There are currently eight racks with passive rear door liquid/air exchangers. A large experimental […]

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 […]

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 […]