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EPFL Open Days

29th-30th April 2023, Rolex Learning Center IT for Sustainability and Sustainable IT: are both possible? Can IT be a true enabler for a sustainable society, particularly in cities and for urban infrastructure? What are digital twins and are they the answer? How can we use minimal energy for increasing data […]

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New EcoCloud brochure is published

Our new brochure featuring articles on our networking with industry, research projects and academic collaborations has now been published. You can preview and download it here: Industry Liaison Brochure

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Harnessing light

Demetri Psaltis and the return of optical neural networks It is not often that professors from EcoCloud are featured in the pages of The Economist. In an article from December 2022, entitled “Artificial intelligence and the rise of optical computing”, the author had this to say: “The idea of turning […]

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EcoCloud Annual Event 2023

Save the date! The EcoCloud Annual Event on IT Sustainability returns to Lausanne Palace: 8:30am to 6:00pm, Tuesday, October 10th, 2023 In-Person agenda with networking, focusing on 4 new multi-center projects for 2023:​

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CloudSuite 4.0 is released

We are happy to announce the release of CloudSuite 4.0! CloudSuite is a collection of benchmarks for first-party cloud services. The suite consists of popular online services and analytics workloads running in datacenters. The benchmarks are based on state-of-the-art open-source real-world software stacks and are containerized for ease of use. […]

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Sustainable technology for SKACH

EcoCloud is getting ready for exorbitant amounts of data The Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) is a radio-astronomy project that will consist of two radio telescope arrays in Australia and South Africa, on which construction began December 5, 2022. The data that come from these telescopes will revolutionize our understanding […]

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UrbanTwin – Seeing double for sustainability

Twins are a fascinating phenomenon: observing how identical twins, even those separated at birth, can resemble each other in appearance, character, ability, and personal taste is astounding. It demonstrates the power of DNA, the smallest of building blocks, in creating surprisingly predictable results. Now, UrbanTwin, a collaboration of Swiss research […]

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Containergy – a new performance evaluation and profiling tool

The Embedded Systems Lab of EPFL has developed a new performance evaluation and profiling tool that uses software containers to perform application runtime assessment, providing energy and performance profiling data. It is focused on energy efficiency for next generation workloads and IT infrastructure. Read more here.

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