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Cansu Kaynak Wins the Prestigious Anita Borg Scholarship Award
Cansu Kaynak wins the prestigious Anita Borg Scholarship Award. Cansu was also the recipient of the IBM Ph.D Fellowship.
Ioannis Alagiannis Wins One of the Three Prestigious Symantec Fellowship Awards
Ioannis Alagiannis from the DIAS lab is the only European winner of the prestigious Symantec Fellowship award this year.
Cansu Kaynak Wins IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Award
Cansu Kaynak, a PhD student at the PARSA lab, received a prestigious and highly competitive IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Award.
EPFL’s Paper in IEEE Micro Top Picks
Clearing the Clouds, the Best Paper Award winner at ASPLOS 2012, appears in the 2014 issue of IEEE Micro Top Picks.
Baris Kasikci Receives VMware Fellowship
Baris Kasikci is one of four recipients of the prestigious VMware Graduate Fellowship for the academic year 2014/2015.
Meet the Walkers
EPFL receives the Best Paper Runner-Up Award at MICRO-46.
EcoCloud’s 3rd Annual Newsletter
The 2013 has been a fantastic year for EcoCloud researchers.
Ailamaki Wins an ERC Grant
Another ERC Grant goes to EcoCloud, this time the winner is Anastasia Ailamaki.
School on Data-Centric Systems
The CUSO Winter School on Data-Centric Systems in collaboration with EcoCloud will cover series of lectures from internationally-recognized experts.
Guerraoui Wins an ERC Grant
Rachid Guerraoui receives an EU Advanced ERC Grant for exceptional research projects.
Atienza Wins IEEE’s Early Career Award
David Atienza receives the 2013 IEEE CEDA Early Career Award.
Technology to Revolutionize Cooling
EPFL on the cover page of the June 2013 issue of Electronics Cooling.
Intel Fellowships 2013
Two EcoCloud Doctoral Assistants won the Intel Fellowships 2013.
EcoCloud’s Second Year
EcoCloud will host its second annual event on May 31st in Lausanne showcasing another year of pioneering interdisciplinary research on sustainable cloud computing.
Optimizing Datacenter TCO
Computing Now, the online portal highlighting IEEE Computer Society’s top articles features Boris Grot’s recent results on Optimizing Datacenter TCO with Scale-Out Processors.
EcoCloud’s Annual Newsletter
Welcome to EcoCloud’s second annual electronic newsletter! A full version of the newsletter is avialable here
Strong EcoCloud Presence at the Tech Tour Cloud & Big Data Summit
The Tech Tour Cloud & Big Data Summit, held at both the Lausanne Palace Hotel and EPFL Rolex Learning Center over 21-22 November 2012, has been a major showcase for the expertise of EcoCloud.
White Paper on Cloud Computing in Switzerland
EcoCloud’s Director, Prof. Babak Falsafi and Deputy Director, Dr. Anne Wiggins, collaborated on The Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences’ topical platform “ICT – Computing in science and technology” to write a white paper about “Cloud Computing in Switzerland”.
RTS Interviews EcoCloud’s David Atienza
Also of EPFL’s Embedded Systems Laboratory, Prof. Atienza was interviewed last week by RTS about his joint laboratory and EcoCloud-related research, which has resulting in a 50% reduction of energy consumption in Credit Suisse datacenters.
EuroCloud Project Chosen from 500 EU FP7 Projects for Presentation to the EU Parliament
Led by major research centers and industrial partners, including researchers from EPFL’s own EcoCloud research center and PARSA laboratory, the project marks the first occasion the EU has funded research focusing on servers and data centers.
Outstanding New Faculty Award
The Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Design Automation has awarded its Outstanding New Faculty Award to EcoCloud’s David Atienza. This marks the first time that the award has been won outside the USA.
DBToaster Breaks up Data Jams in Server Farms
In gigantic server farms around the world, billions of database entries are queried every second. EcoCloud researchers have developed a system that drastically improves the circulation of this flow of information.
Clearing the Clouds: a Major Breakthrough in Cloud Computing Efficiency
Clearing the Clouds, the Best Paper Award winner at ASPLOS 2012, a major breakthrough in understanding cloud computing efficiency.
L’EPFL, Nouvelle Silicon Valley Romande
Le consortium des laboratoires informatiques de l’EPFL a décroché 1,7 million de francs auprès de partenaires industriels.
CloudSuite 1.0 Released
CloudSuite, the first benchmark suite for emerging scale-out applications, is released
Clearing the Clouds
Clearing the Clouds, a study that sheds light on (in)efficiencies in modern server processors and memory systems when running emerging scale-out workloads, appears at ASPLOS 2012.
Oracle Research Award
David Atienza is the recipient of an Oracle Outstanding Research Award in 2011 for contributions to stable global thermal-aware control for entreprise servers.
Thrustworthy Cloud Storage
A team of six Swiss university laboratories, led by EcoCloud member Prof. Anastasia Ailamaki, received an award of CHF 1.5million for a project entitled “Trustworthy Cloud Storage”.
Toward Dark Silicon
In a recent paper in IEEE Micro special issue on Big Chips, July 2011, EcoCloud researchers project that server chips will not scale beyond a few tens to low hundreds of cores, and an increasing fraction of the chip in future technologies will be dark silicon that one cannot afford to power.