Our first CleanSky research spotlight focused on placing virtual machines (VMs) in the cloud. However, in many cases, customers do not rent a single VM from the service provider (that then needs to be placed appropriately), but rather require a set of VMs to run their services, and these VMs are interconnected and need to be properly sized. Additionally, one major trend …

From September 4th through 8th the CleanSky consortium has met in Beijing, China, to host its third annual summer school.  Under the theme “Advanced Methods and Theories for Scalable Cloud Systems” the program featured distinguished international experts as well as internal consortium speakers. This year, the summer school tightly integrated industry experts into the program. Highlights included a full-day tutorial …

The website for the 3rd CleanSky ITN summer school, hosted in Beijing September 4-8 is now online! The program will, e.g., feature a full-day DPDK tutorial provided by Intel. External applicants are welcome to register. Please see the summer school website at https://nasp.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn/CleanSky/ for further details.

The 3rd CleanSky Summer School will be held in Beijing, China, this fall. From September 4-8, we invite students and researchers alike to join us for a full week of lessons on Advanced Methods and Theories for Scalable Cloud Systems. The summer school will be hosted by Tsinghua University, and more detailed information will follow!

On March 13th 2017, the third CleanSky ITN conference will kick off. The two-day program features three distinguished keynote speakers, six guest talks, and presentations of CleanSky fellows reporting on their latest work. The conference will be co-located with NetSys 2017. Registrations are still possible via the NetSys website. The program can be downloaded here.

The booklet for the 2nd CleanSky Conference, held in Trondheim in August this year, is now available for download.

After we have completed the introduction of our fellows, we now want to introduce their work, too. We will do so in a number of ‘research spotlights’ that feature core topics of CleanSky ITN and how fellows are contributing to those. Today, we start with the problems of Virtual Machine placement, and how our fellows are currently contributing towards solving …

Recently, our two fellows Besmir Tola (ESR9) and Yordanos Tibebu Woldeyohannes (ESR3) have been representing CleanSky as Marie Curie Ambassadors at the NTNU Trondheim Researcher Night 2016. In particular, they promoted the possibilities of doing research within the EU Marie Curie Actions. This post’s picture taken during this event features Besmir in the white shirt on the left!

Last Friday, the second CleanSky ITN summer school came to an end. The whole network including all full and associate partners as well as all fellows gathered in Helsinki for a series of very interesting lectures on green datacenter networking. Please visit the summer school website for more information. On the final day, the second CleanSky ITN conference was announced to …

Next week, CleanSky ITN will meet in Helsinki, Finland, to hold its second out of three summer schools. Under the theme of “green datacenter networking” both fellows and external students will have the opportunity to learn from world-class researchers. For more information, please visit the event website.