A Blog of the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Open Cloud Day on 10-Jun-2014 University of Bern (Universität Bern, UniS, Schanzeneckstrasse 1, Bern, A003) Swiss Open Systems User Group Motivation and Goal Cloud Computing becomes more and more important. To get the full power of clouds, in the view of /ch/open, these clouds should be open according of the principles open cloud initiative. The […]
1st European Conference on the Future Internet – ECFI Brussels, 2-3 April 2014 Early bird registration deadline: 1 February 2014 The 1st European Conference on the Future Internet (ECFI) aims at bringing together key stakeholders to discuss how Europe can achieve global leadership in ICT by 2020 through innovative Internet technologies. In this context, industry […]
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
Martin Blöchlinger is a researcher at the ICCLab. After an IT apprenticeship and an additional year of programming experience he decided to study at the ZHAW. In summer 2014 he graduated (Bachelor of Science ZFH in Informatics) and a few weeks later started to work at the InIT in the focus area ‘Distributed Software Systems’. He is […]
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 […]
This page is kept for archiving. Please navigate to our new site: blog.zhaw.ch/splab. Overview Since Amazon started offering cloud services (AWS) in 2006, cloud computing in all its forms became evermore popular and has steadily matured since. A lot of experience has been collected and today a high number of companies are running their applications […]
A word of warning at the beginning: This post is about C++ and not about C! So whatever you read here may not necessarily apply to C. Nevertheless you may have a look Sugih’s page which features are in C. Besides I’m not going to explain what references and pointers are. Introduction While working on […]
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, […]