Welcome to the EcoCloud 2018 Annual Event. This year’s event will feature industrial speakers and EcoCloud researchers on June 18th and 19th. Keynote Catching and Preventing Privacy Problems in Systems and Deep Neural Networks Úlfar Erlingsson, Google For the last several years, Google has been leading the development and real-world deployment […]
Welcome to the EcoCloud 2019 Annual Event. This year’s event will feature industrial speakers and EcoCloud researchers on May 6th and 7th. Keynote Applied ML at Facebook Scale Kim Hazelwood, Facebook Kim Hazelwood is a Senior Engineering Manager leading the AI Infrastructure Foundation efforts at Facebook, which focus on the […]
EcoCloud Annual Event scheduled for May 5th/6th will be cancelled this year due to the accelerated spread of the pandemic and the ban on mobility in the coming weeks. The health and safety of our community is paramount during these difficult times. The EcoCloud executive committee is currently considering hosting […]
IT Sustainability Days DAY 1/2: September 16th, 2021 8:30 – 9:30 Welcome Session 8:30 – 9:20 Registration and Covid verification 9:20 – 9:30 Welcome message from EcoCloud VIDEO: Sessions 1 and 2 Session 1 – Next-Generation Datacenter Technologies Moderator: David Atienza 9:30 – 9:55 Speaker 1 – Bruno Michel, […]
Program 8:00 – 8:30 Pick-up badges/registration + welcome coffee 8:30 Introduction David Atienza and Ed Bugnion (EPFL) Session 1 Sustainable smart cities, transport systems and agriculture 9:00 Digital Twins at the services of Sustainable Cities & Transport systems : challenges? Frédéric Dreyer (EPFL) 9:15 Towards a Data-driven Operational Digital Twin […]
Dr. Nassif explained that Vincent Van Gogh would have made an excellent system designer. Wednesday, 23rd November, 2022 EcoCloud Visiting Professor Sani Nassif gave a talk in the BC Building at EPFL to a captivated audience. The talk examines trends in Silicon device dependability as scaling continues, and proposes some […]
Jason Cong, Director of the Center for Domain-Specific Computing (CDSC) of UCLA, has been invited to EPFL by the IC Faculty. As we are near the end of Moore’s Law scaling, there is a great need to design various kinds of customized accelerators for much higher performance and energy efficiency. […]
David Atienza, Scientific Director of EcoCloud Cooling microchips with tailor-made microfluidic channels Remco van Erp, Director of Corintis Read the presentation Read more about Corintis Machine Learning to identify Nespresso capsules, with Matteo Feo Matteo Feo of Nespresso and EPFL, pictured with Holger Frauenrath and David Atienza Read the […]
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 needs and should sustainable certification play a role? Speakers: Prof. Babak Falsafi (IC-PARSA) CEO […]
Dr. Gourav Datta of University of Southern California Viterbi, Electrical Engineering, gave a presentation on In-Sensor & Neuromorphic Computing are all you need for Energy-Efficient Deep Learning This talk will focus on two research thrusts in energy and latency-efficient edge intelligence. The first thrust is inspired by the fact that […]
Prof. Paolo Ienne is delighted to invite Arvind of MIT to give the following talk: We live in an age where an enormous amount of data is being collected constantly because of smart phones, the ubiquitous presence of sensors and the wide-spread use of social media. Useful and cost-effective analysis […]
The technological advances in miniaturized, ultra-low power embedded systems, in communication protocols and in AI techniques, are leading to disruptive innovations. How to embrace the opportunities and challenges offered by smart machine learning devices and IoT connected technologies? Connecting Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Internet of Things (IoT) will cover three […]
Save the date! The EcoCloud Annual Event on IT Sustainability returns to Lausanne Palace: 8:30am to 6:00pm, Tuesday, October 10th, 2023 Program available here
We have a lot of people working on X-HEEP from different perspectives. It’s hard to keep track of what is done or can be done. It’s good to know about new changes that might affect our work. We can exchange ideas and make our work even better! General Announcements Why […]
Research in Oracle Labs: AI, LLM, Vector Database, Data Analytics and Business Applications This talk focuses on Oracle Labs' role in the rapidly changing world of AI and data analytics. We will showcase Oracle's latest research and developments in these areas, emphasizing how AI is transforming business practices. We start […]
As our world becomes more interconnected and reliant on digital systems, the need for transparency, accessibility, and collaborative innovation in hardware and software design has become paramount. Closed and proprietary solutions often limit user sovereignty and control, hinder interoperability, and stifle innovation by locking users into a specific ecosystem. In […]
Green Bytes: Data-Driven Approaches to EPFL Sustainability Take part in the next Data Champions Lunch Talks “Green Bytes: Data-Driven Approaches to EPFL Sustainability”. The event is free upon registration, and sandwiches and drinks are offered for each participant by the EPFL Library. The event is open to everyone interested. Dr. […]
Dr. Xavier Ouvrard will present EcoCloud's activities at 09:25. Full program
Speaker: Amir M. Rahmani, PhD, MBA Affiliation: Professor of CS, EECS, and Nursing, Co-Director of the UCI Institute for Future Health, University of California, Irvine, USA "Future Health" emphasizes the importance of recognizing each individual's uniqueness, which arises from their specific omics, lifestyle, environmental, and socioeconomic conditions. Thanks to advancements […]
Discover the Swiss Federal Offices' vision of research funding and establish meaningful connections with key stakeholders in the funding process! For one day, representatives of Federal Offices who play pivotal role in research funding will be present on the EPFL campus. Engage in direct discussions with Federal staff, providing a […]
Our 2024 Annual Event will be a in-person agenda with networking sessions, focusing on 4 new multi-center projects and initiatives moving forward in 2024: - AI/LLM energy/carbon footprint (Swiss AI Initiative and AI Center of EPFL) - Software stacks for a sustainable and intelligent edge-to-cloud ecosystem - New sustainable computing […]
August Ning, Doctoral Assistant Princeton University Host: Babak Falsafi, PARSA Recently events such as global chip shortages, semiconductor subsidies, and the rise of large scale machine learning have emphasized the importance of semiconductors in our everyday lives. Recent regulations by the United States of America placed export controls on flagship […]
Venez découvrir l'univers d'Utop’IA, une bande dessinée éditée par EPFL Press qui explore les enjeux environnementaux de l’intelligence artificielle. Ce projet, initié par le Centre LEARN, s’appuie sur un comité scientifique d’experts et d'expertes en IA, en durabilité et en sciences de l’apprentissage. Programme: Discussions avec le dessinateur Herji, les membres […]
The first annual SwissChips event will take place at the Landesmuseum in Zurich, in the modern Willy G.S. Hirzel auditorium. This event will bring together SwissChips researchers, universities of applied sciences and external collaborators, as well as industry leaders for a day of talks, posters, networking and discussion. Our vision […]
Hardware specialization is increasingly essential to meet the performance and energy demands of modern applications. High-level synthesis (HLS) has emerged as a key enabling technology, allowing designers to rapidly generate specialized accelerators while exploring complex trade-offs between computation, communication, and memory. Significant challenges remain, however, including the need to orchestrate […]
Dr. Javier Picorel of Huawei In 2020 Dr. Picorel gave a talk at the EcoCloud Annual Event on Edge Computing at Huawei. Now he returns with a fascinating presentation about the battle of the interconnects. As traditional scale-up interconnects like NVIDIA’s NVLink and CXL extend beyond single nodes to span […]
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An Industrial Perspective on Gaining a Competitive Edge Through Automation The growing complexity of modern chips and the pressure to maintain a competitive edge in industry are pushing traditional electronic design automation (EDA) tools to their limits, increasing the need for more customizable and scalable design methodologies. As the demand […]
Join us as we welcome Miguel Peón Quirós (EPFL EcoCloud), Denisa Constantinescu (ESL - Embedded Systems Lab) Rubén Rodríguez Álvarez (ESL) and Stasa Kostic (ESL) for a new session on how they leveraged hardware–software co-design to foster creativity and critical thinking in their course. They will share how students dealt […]
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. As AI demand continues to rapidly […]
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. Artificial Intelligence is becoming increasingly energy-intensive, with datacenters projected to consume up to 10% […]
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. With the quantum-themed program running and the materials project […]
Towards 3D-DRAM-based Accelerators for Efficient Generative Inference Generative 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 […]
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 […]
We are participating in the DATE 26 conference, as part of the organizing committee, in beautiful Verona. We will be contributing a keynote presentation and a workshop. The details of the workshop are below: Energy and Material Efficiency in Cloud-Edge continuum
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 […]
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. The program will feature […]