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 […]

On the 25th January, 2024, Dr. Sungpack Hong gave a presentation detailing Oracle’s approach to the benefits of AI. This talk focused on Oracle Labs’ role in the rapidly changing world of AI and data analytics. We showcased Oracle’s latest research and developments in these areas, emphasizing how AI is […]

If we are going to reduce the carbon footprint of data centers we need to use computing resources more efficiently. If processes always made use of data center facilities in a regular way, it would be an easy game. However, the resources of a data center are used by customers […]

The Internet of Things is expanding at an incredible rate, and consequently demands for ever smaller intelligent hardware are constantly increasing. The Embedded Systems Lab has collaborated with other EPFL teams and EcoCloud to design X-HEEP: a RISC-V chip which is aimed at tiny platforms with big jobs to do. […]

For computer security, enforcing the principle “do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing” is vital. Modern computers and smartphones do many things at the same time. For example, you may have a browser with one tab playing a song while in another you are […]

Faculty member Prof. Zhengmao Lu is interviewed by Michael Mitchell of EPFL A new addition to EPFL’s Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Zhenmao Lu brings fresh ideas for a sustainable future to the domain of energy transfer. Zhengmao Lu, a newly appointed Tenure Track Assistant Professor at EPFL’s School of Engineering, […]

The cloud is ever-growing and, as a consequence, data centers are multiplying in size and number. The situation is difficult to manage. To meet demand, outdated and inefficient technology is often being used to provide quick solutions. Cooling systems are frequently unwieldy and energy inefficient, with little or no use […]