GLASS News and Highlights

January 2024

  • On 10 January 2025, the Systems Section gathered for a day of presentations, networking, and collaboration. Guests Simon Peyton Jones and Stephen Kell joined us, with Simon sharing insights on writing impactful research papers. Our own Colin Perkins led a discussion on making an impact in research, and there was also a session on crafting research proposals. The day provided an opportunity for members to connect, engage in meaningful discussions, and focus on key topics within the field.

December 2024

  • The 1st International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing (LOCO 2024) took place on 3 December 2024 in Glasgow and online, attracting 115 attendees. Organized by the University of Glasgow’s Low Carbon and Sustainable Computing group, the event aimed to bring together researchers and practitioners to share ideas and discuss ongoing work in low-carbon and sustainable computing. LOCO 2024 emphasized energy efficiency, carbon awareness, sustainable software engineering, and computing for climate science. It featured 21 accepted regular papers and 10 lightning talks. The event promoted low-carbon participation, with online access free of charge and a low in-person fee. The workshop was designed to be inclusive, diverse, and accessible, and we plan to make it a recurring event. A call for bids to host LOCO 2025 will be issued in April.

October 2024

  • Dr Lauritz Thamsen won an EPSRC New Investigator Award to work on Carbon-Aware Scalable Processing in Elastic Clusters (Casper) from early 2025. The individual research project will be driven by a PDRA/RA and will also involve GLASS PhD student Kathleen West and academic Yehia Elkhatib. The industry and academic partners of the project are AWS, BBC R&D, and Humboldt University of Berlin. 

August 2024

  • We have a new advanced course on scalable and sustainable Cloud Systems, run by Dr Yehia Elkhatib and Dr Lauritz Thamsen in the upcoming academic year. It is the first advanced course with a strong focus on sustainable computing offered by our School!

  • A new PhD project with Barclays starts this month! James Nurdin has started a PhD co-supervised by both GLASS (Dr Lauritz Thamsen) and IDA sections, and funded by Barclays, to optimise data services for sustainability using machine learning.

July 2024