DCSL – Data Center Systems Laboratory

The Data Center Systems Laboratory (DCSL) would like to congratulate:

Ms. Neelu Kalani as one of the new winners of the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Europe Rewards Excellent Research – Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. for 2024

Dr. Marios Kogias for the Dennis M. Ritchie Thesis Award 2021

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The Data Center Systems Laboratory (DCSL) focuses on systems-level problems within datacenters combining operating systems, networks, and computer architecture.
The group publishes its research in top conferences such as SOSP, OSDI, NSDI, Eurosys, USENIX ATC, ASPLOS, ISCA, MICRO, SoCC.   All software is open-sourced at the time of publication.

Current projects include :

  • The Tyche Project: An initiative to rethink how trust is derived in computer systems.
  • SIRD: A Sender-Informed, Receiver-Driven Datacenter Transport Protocol
  • Koma: A framework for user-defined TCP traffic scheduling

Selected past projects include:

  • IX – A Protected Data Plane Operating System for High Throughput and Low Latency (OSDI 2014, SoCC 2015, ACM TOCS 2016)
    software: https://github.com/ix-project
  • Scale-Out NUMA (ASPLOS 2014) and follow-on extensions in computer architecture (Manycore NI ISCA 15 , SABREs MICRO 16) and in rack-scale load balancing (RackOut TOCS 19, SoCC 16)
  • Zygos: Achieving Low Tail Latency for Microsecond-scale Computing — (SOSP 17)
    software: https://github.com/ix-project
  • Lancet: A self-correcting latency-measuring tool (ATC 19)
    software: https://github.com/epfl-dcsl/lancet-tool
  • R2P2: Making RPCs first-class citizens (ATC 19) and its extensions in consensus (HoverCraft Eurosys 20)
    software: https://github.com/epfl-dcsl
  • Secured Routines : Language-based construction of Trusted Execution Environments (ATC 19)
    software: https://github.com/epfl-dcsl/go (fork of Golang)

Funding

Lab funding comes from research grants:

  • VMware Faculty Research Grant
  • Microsoft EPFL-ETH Zurich Joint Research Center
  • The Nano-Tera project
  • The Botnar Foundation
  • Swiss Chips Initiative
  • QualComm Technologies Inc.

Dr. George Prekas received a Google Ph.D. Fellowship in Operating Systems.
Dr. Marios Kogias received a IBM Graduate Research Fellowship.

Contact information: Laboratory Admin page