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SUMMARY:AI and Energy: Building a Sustainable Future
DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with the Applied Machine Learning Days\, we will explore holistic approaches to sustainable computing\, from renewable energy integration and advanced cooling in data centers to hardware efficiency with custom accelerators\, energy storage solutions\, heat reuse\, and the broader vision of sustainable AI. \nAs AI demand continues to rapidly increase\, its growing energy demand calls for urgent and holistic solutions to be sustainable. During this event\, the talks will address sustainable computing across multiple layers\, from renewable energy integration and advance cooling technologies in data centers to energy-efficient hardware design and custom accelerators. Featured talks include pioneering initiatives such as EPFL’s HeatingBits and EMPA’s HEATWISE project\, which demonstrate how data centers and edge computing facilities can smartly be integrated to be more sustainable by enhancing heat reuse and possibly reducing drastically carbon emissions\, through different means such as battery storage systems and advanced heat reuse and storage. \nWe will also high the role of AI itself in optimizing its own footprint. Beyond technological breakthroughs\, we aim to promote sustainability as a fundamental design principle for future computing systems. Together\, these contributions define a roadmap toward AI that is not only powerful and intelligent but also energy-responsible and sustainable by design. \nTalks: \n\nThe energy wall: success and survival strategies for AI – Prof. Giovanni De Micheli\, EcoCloud\, EPFL\nThe HEATWISE project: Waste heat utilization from edge data centers in tertiary buildings – Dr. Binod Koirala\, Urban Energy Systems Lab\, EMPA\nImproving data centers’ energy efficiency while reducing their carbon footprint: the EPFL HeatingBits project – Prof. Drazen Dujic\, Power Electronics Laboratory\, EPFL\nBeyond the Bottleneck: AI as the catalyst for sustainable computing – Dr. Darong Huang\, Embedded System Laboratory\, EPFL\n\nChair: Dr. Xavier Ouvrard\, EcoCloud\, EPFL \nRegistration
URL:https://ecocloud.epfl.ch/event/ai-and-energy-building-a-sustainable-future/
LOCATION:SwissTech Convention Center\, Rue Louis Favre 2\, Ecublens\, EPFL\, 1024
CATEGORIES:EcoCloud Official Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Dr. Xavier Ouvrard":MAILTO:xavier.ouvrard@epfl.ch
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SUMMARY:AI and Sustainability in Practice: Challenges and Solutions
DESCRIPTION:Is AI part of the climate problem or the sustainability solution? In this hands-on workshop\, participants will explore its carbon footprint\, discover practical tools\, and co-design new pathways — including a visit to EPFL’s EcoCloud facility. \nArtificial Intelligence is becoming increasingly energy-intensive\, with datacenters projected to consume up to 10% of global electricity by 2030. Racks alone may soon reach 1MW per unit\, raising urgent questions about the sustainability of AI infrastructure. The shift from performance-driven to sustainability-driven datacenters presents multiple challenges — and opportunities. \nThis workshop explores these challenges and highlights pathways toward sustainable AI. We will focus particularly on the carbon footprint of datacenters\, while also examining how AI itself can serve as an enabler of sustainability. \nThe session will alternate between short expert inputs and dynamic small-group discussions on key questions. Participants will reflect on the dual role of AI — both as part of the sustainability problem and as part of the solution. \nThe workshop will introduce a new carbon assessment methodology developed at EPFL and include a guided tour of the EcoCloud experimental facility\, where cutting-edge technologies are being tested to reduce AI’s environmental footprint. \nWe will conclude by inviting participants to co-create new approaches and propose innovative paths for building sustainable AI systems. \nTarget audience:\nThe workshop is designed for anyone interested in AI sustainability\, including datacenter providers\, AI practitioners\, policymakers\, researchers\, and students who seek a holistic perspective on sustainability. \nOrganisers:\nXavier Ouvrard et Julia Paolini \nRegistration
URL:https://ecocloud.epfl.ch/event/amldworkshop/
LOCATION:SwissTech Convention Center\, Rue Louis Favre 2\, Ecublens\, EPFL\, 1024
CATEGORIES:EcoCloud Official Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Dr. Xavier Ouvrard":MAILTO:xavier.ouvrard@epfl.ch
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260310T103000
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CREATED:20260213T094937Z
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SUMMARY:Space x Data
DESCRIPTION:ESA’s European Space Deep-Tech Innovation Centre (ESA’s first office in Switzerland) is bridging Swiss scientific excellence with commercial relevance. One approach for this is to host ambitious\, use-driven research programs in the topics of quantum\, materials\, and data science for space.  \nWith the quantum-themed program running and the materials project selection completed\, the focus is now on developing an exciting program around the still very broad topic of “Space x Data”. To narrow the scope and to ensure this upcoming program supports ambitious technological challenges where Swiss and European excellence can shine\, the input of the scientific community is invaluable. \nJoin us to learn more about ESDI and its “Phi-Lab” research program platform and how you can help shape the scope of a multi-million-funded program and increase the chances of your most exciting topics to be represented in the call later this year. \n			\n							REGISTRATION
URL:https://ecocloud.epfl.ch/event/space-x-data/
LOCATION:ELE117\, EPFL
CATEGORIES:EcoCloud Connected Event
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SUMMARY:Prof. Prashant Nair: Scaling the Memory Wall
DESCRIPTION:Towards 3D-DRAM-based Accelerators for Efficient Generative Inference\nGenerative AI now underpins search\, digital assistants\, and media applications\, making inference cost a first-order design constraint. Unlike traditional compute-bound workloads\, large language and speech models are typically limited by memory bandwidth and capacity rather than raw arithmetic throughput. Thus\, their inference cost is driven as much by data movement as by compute\, and therefore hinges on the memory system’s design. This concern is especially acute during autoregressive decoding\, which must repeatedly stream model weights and key–value (KV) caches at high bandwidths and low latencies while also providing enough capacity to support long context windows and several concurrent users. To make matters worse\, these demands are accelerating with state-of-the-art models now exceeding hundreds of billions of parameters\, context windows expanding from 4K to 128K tokens and beyond\, and mixture-of-experts designs introducing additional irregularity in memory access patterns. Thus\, today’s memory technologies force difficult trade-offs. SRAM can deliver extremely high bandwidth\, but at prohibitive area and capacity limits. HBM offers higher capacity\, but remains constrained by achievable bandwidth and I/O power. Closing this gap will require a fundamental rethinking of how memory is integrated with accelerator logic. \nIn this talk\, I will introduce our upcoming memory-centric accelerator\, which vertically integrates logic with 3D-stacked DRAM to deliver SRAM-level bandwidth and HBM-class capacity while substantially reducing energy consumption. I will describe the architectural challenges addressed by workload-aware channel mapping\, optimized power management\, topology-preserving redundancy\, and thermal-aware reliability mechanisms\, enabling the practical deployment of 3D-DRAM. Evaluations using models such as Llama-3.1\, DeepSeek-V3\, Canary\, and Whisper show that our accelerator achieves significantly higher throughput and responsiveness compared to HBM-based alternatives. I will conclude by examining the broader implications for computer architecture\, particularly how advanced logic-memory integration through hybrid bonding and multi-high stacking can reshape inference cost structures and enable the next generation of trillion-parameter models. \nBiography: Prashant J. Nair is the lead architect of the 3D-memory architecture at d-Matrix for their upcoming accelerators. He is also an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC)\, where he leads the Systems and Architectures (STAR) Lab\, and an Affiliate Fellow of the Quantum Algorithms Institute. His research focuses on memory architectures and systems. Dr. Nair’s recognitions include the 2024 TCCA Young Architect Award (the highest early-career honor in computer architecture)\, the 2025 DSN Test of Time Award\, the HPCA 2023 Best Paper Award\, a MICRO 2024 Best Paper nomination\, and the HPCA 2025 Distinguished Artifact Award. Over the past decade\, he has published more than 40 papers in top-tier venues. Prior to his promotion to Associate Professor\, as an Assistant Professor\, he was inducted into all three halls of fame of computer architecture: ISCA\, MICRO\, and HPCA. \nWebsite: https://prashantnair.bitbucket.io/ \nMost Recent Co-Lead Project: https://gimletlabs.ai/blog/low-latency-spec-decode-corsair 
URL:https://ecocloud.epfl.ch/event/prof-prashant-nair-scaling-the-memory-wall/
LOCATION:BC420 – Computing Building of EPFL\, EPFL\, Ecublens\, Switzerland
CATEGORIES:EcoCloud Official Event
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SUMMARY:Prof. Luca Carloni of Columbia: Agile and Collaborative System-on-Chip Design with Open-Source Hardware Platforms
DESCRIPTION:Open-source hardware can play a unique role for the semiconductor industry in the age of sustainable AI. It can enable design reuse\, foster collaboration\, and support workforce development. ESP (Embedded Scalable Platforms) is an open-source research platform for system-on-chip (SoC) design that combines a modular architecture with an agile design methodology. The ESP architecture simplifies the design and prototyping of heterogeneous chips with multiple RISC-V processor cores and dozens of loosely coupled accelerators\, all interconnected by a scalable network-on-chip. The ESP methodology promotes system-level design while accommodating different specification languages and design flows. \nESP’s capabilities have enabled a small team\, primarily composed of graduate students\, to realize two SoCs of increasing complexity\, each within a few months. Conceived as a heterogeneous system integration platform and refined through years of teaching at Columbia University\, ESP is well suited to advance collaborative engineering across the open-source hardware community. \nThis talk will be followed by a standing lunch next to BC420 from 12:15 to 13:30. \nBio: \nLuca Carloni is professor and chair of Computer Science at Columbia University in the City of New York. He holds a Laurea Degree Summa cum Laude in Electronics Engineering from the University of Bologna\, Italy\, and an MS in Engineering and a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences\, both from the University of California\, Berkeley. His research interests include heterogeneous computing\, system-on-chip platforms\, embedded systems\, and open-source hardware. He co-authored over two hundred refereed papers. \nLuca received the NSF CAREER Award\, the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship\, and the ONR Young Investigator Award. In 2025\, he received the IEEE/ACM A. Richard Newton Technical Impact Award in Electronic Design Automation for the paper “Latency-Insensitive Protocols” and the Columbia Engineering School (SEAS) Alumni Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award. He is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow.
URL:https://ecocloud.epfl.ch/event/dr-luca-carloni-of-berkeley-agile-and-collaborative-system-on-chip-design-with-open-source-hardware-platforms/
LOCATION:BC420 – Computing Building of EPFL\, EPFL\, Ecublens\, Switzerland
CATEGORIES:EcoCloud Official Event
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260422T140000
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SUMMARY:DATE 26: Energy and Material Efficiency in Cloud-Edge continuum
DESCRIPTION:We are participating in the DATE 26 conference\, as part of the organizing committee\, in beautiful Verona. \nWe will be contributing a keynote presentation and a workshop. The details of the workshop are below: \nEnergy and Material Efficiency in Cloud-Edge continuum \n 
URL:https://ecocloud.epfl.ch/event/date-26-energy-and-material-efficiency-in-cloud-edge-continuum/
LOCATION:Verona\, Palazzo della Gran Guardia\, Italy
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260512T180000
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SUMMARY:Carrying the Torch: Honorary Lecture of Professor Giovanni De Micheli
DESCRIPTION:From my perspective as a researcher and educator\, the torch represents the message that I carry and will pass on to a new generation of scientists and engineers. The interaction and networking with the community is essential to our activity: indeed\, we teach to and learn from each other. The circle symbolizes the flow of information among peers as well as a paradigm where crossbreeding of ideas and methods is key to scientific advances. This message will be portrayed with examples from my scientific career and a vision of the future. \nBio:\nGiovanni De Micheli is currently the Scientific Director of the EcoCloud Center at EPFL. He was professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford and EPFL for 40 years. Prof. De Micheli is a Fellow of ACM\, AAAS and IEEE\, elected member of 4 Academies\, including the US National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was the recipient of the 2025 IEEE Gustav Kirchhoff Award\, the 2022 ESDA-IEEE Phil Kaufman Award and several other awards. \nProgram: \n\n18:00-18:15: Introduction by Prof. Sabine Süsstrunk\, Dean of IC School and Prof. Adrian Ionescu\, Dean of STI School.\n18:15-19:00: Honorary Lecture by Prof. Giovanni De Micheli\n19:00-19:10: Q & A\n19:10-19:20: Presentation of Honorary Diploma and Medal by Prof. Edouard Bugnion\, Vice President for Innovation and Impact.\n19:20-19:30: Thank you and closing – Prof. Sabine Süsstrunk and Prof. Adrian Ionescu.\n19:30-21:00: Apéritif in the CO 2 – Hall 2nd floor\n\nRegistration
URL:https://ecocloud.epfl.ch/event/carrying-the-torch-honorary-lecture-of-professor-giovanni-de-micheli/
LOCATION:CO2\, CO2\, EPFL\, Switzerland
CATEGORIES:EcoCloud Official Event
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SUMMARY:SwissChips Annual Event
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, June 4\, 2026\, at the SwissTech Convention Center (STCC) at EPFL in Lausanne for a day bringing together researchers\, partners\, and members of the Swiss semiconductor community to exchange ideas and discuss the latest developments in chip design and microelectronics in Switzerland. \nThe program will feature a keynote by Prof. Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli-Vincentelli (University of California\, Berkeley)\, a talk from Dr. Thanushan Kugathasan (University of Geneva)\, PD Dr. Prabitha Urwyler (Innosuisse)\, and Peter Kirkegaard (Swissmem\, IMT Microtechnologies) as well as updates from each of the SwissChips work packages and State Secretariat for Education\, Research and Innovation SERI. The day will conclude with a poster and networking session\, giving participants the opportunity to connect and discuss ongoing research. \nEveryone is welcome to attend – not only members of the SwissChips community. \nMore information about the event and how to register here:\nSwissChips Annual Event
URL:https://ecocloud.epfl.ch/event/swisschips-annual-event/
LOCATION:SwissTech Convention Center\, Rue Louis Favre 2\, Ecublens\, EPFL\, 1024
CATEGORIES:EcoCloud Connected Event
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