A Blog of the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Pushing boundaries is what ICCLab is all about: while this has been largely restricted to the realm of Cloud Computing heretofore, new dimensions were opened up last weekend, when the team ventured south to the beautiful setting of the Contra Dam at Verzasca to do the 200m 007 bungee jump (featured in Goldeneye). 6 hardy souls were brave […]
The XiFi project, which we have just recently joined, is starting the process of reaching out to the larger community – primarily developers – to let them know about all the cool capabilities that are offered by Future Internet platform.
The second project meeting of the GEYSER project was held in ZHAW on Feb 5-6. The project is getting up to speed now and the meeting provided an opportunity for all the project partners to report on their current activities and progress and also for all to progress the requirements and common understanding of the […]
While we have lots of experience working with cloud automation tools, for OpenStack in particular, it has taken us a little while to get around to checking out Fuel from Mirantis. Here, we give a short summary of our initial impressions of this very interesting tool. Schlagwörter: deployment, Mirantis Fuel
Arcus is an internally funded project which focuses on correlating energy consumption with cloud usage information to enable a cloud provider to understand in detail how her energy is consumed – as energy continues to account for an increasing amount of a cloud provider’s operating costs, this issue is increasing in importance. The work focuses on […]
The primary focus of the Energy Theme is on reducing the energy consumption of cloud computing resources. As compute nodes consume most of the energy in cloud computing systems, work to date has been focused on reducing the energy consumed by compute loads, particularly within the Openstack context. Although, as servers get increasingly instrumented, it […]
Seán attended the kick off meeting for the GEYSER project in Rome from Nov 28-29 on behalf of ZHAW. GEYSER is an exciting new project focused on improving energy efficiency across networks of Data Centres. It’s a 3 year project with a strong group of partners. Led by Engineering, the project team includes ABB, Wattics, […]
Seán has a diverse background spanning the academic space, large industry and has dabbled in the world of startups. Having completed his PhD in telecommunications in DCU in 2001, Seán then went on to work in a nascent research lab in Ericsson in Ireland. He left this lab to join the Performance Engineering Lab in UCD and spent 10 years on […]
Motivation Besides the work in national projects where we engage with and transfer our knowledge to local SMEs, a major focus always lay on international or more precisely european projects where we’re currently involved in a number of FP7 Future Internet projects. Our goal is to push the progress of this so called Future Internet […]
We’re delighted to announce that Dr. Seán Murphy (twitter, linkedin) has just joined ICCLab. Seán has been a friend of the lab for many years – somehow before the lab actually existed! – and his ideas and energy are very much in line with the infamous ICCLab spirit.