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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]