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 energy consumption. Until Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
Prof. Babak Falsafi gave a presentation at the 18th International Summer School on Advanced Computer Architecture and Compilation for High-performance Embedded Systems in Fiuggi, Italy. ACACES 2023 was organised by HiPEAC. ACACES looks at many disruptive technologies. This lecture was the only one on conventional computing, and presents the state Read more…
Prof. Babak Falsafi featured in an online webinar organized by Reuters and IEEE, together with leaders from IEEE CS, UN and OECD on the climate impact of Frontier Technologies. Watch the video Empowering The Green Tech Revolution: From Design to Deployment According to a recent UN report, frontier technologies such Read more…
Midgard researchers have been included in a volume of retrospectives on research into computer architecture. The International Symposium on Computer Architecture is the premier forum for new ideas and experimental results in computer architecture, with this year marking the Symposium’s 50th anniversary. As part of the celebrations, significant and memorable Read more…
CloudSuite – the most advanced server benchmarking toolkit in the open source world – has just released version 4.0 Read more here
David Schall and Prof. Boris Grot of the University of Edinburgh presented a ground-breaking paper at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture in New York. Lukewarm Serverless Functions: Characterization and Optimization In serverless computing, developers organize their applications as a set of functions, which are invoked on-demand in response to Read more…
Sid Gupta was invited to the Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2022, an exclusive event open only to the best 100 Computer Science candidates and 100 Maths candidates.
An exciting new development in the progress of Midgard, a novel re-envisioning of the virtual memory abstraction ubiquitous to computer systems, sees a tech leader funding research that will bring together experts from Yale, the University of Edinburgh and EcoCloud at EPFL. Global semiconductor manufacturer Intel is sponsoring an EcoCloud-led Read more…