ParaDIME members Prof. Dr. Christof Fetzer of TUD and his PhD student Thomas Knauth attended the 8th Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware (LADIS). The event was hosted by Microsoft Research in Cambridge, UK. Prof. Dr. Christof Fetzer gave a talk titled "Energie-Efficient Storage and Processing in Edge Clouds", based on a paper previously published at IEEE Cloud earlier this year.

The talk was well received and led to some interesting discussions afterwards. The infrastructure provided by ParaDIME partner Cloud&Heat, which is used and evaluated within the ParaDIME context, could be beneficial for future use cases such as caching and computing in edge clouds.

ParaDIME member Thomas Knauth from TU Dresden presented work done in context of the the ParaDIME project at the IEEE Cloud conference in Santa Clara, CA, USA. The work deals with ways to improve the replication performance for strongly consistent, geo-replicated data stores. The topic is relvant to ParaDIME because we aim to distribute computations across multiple data centers. However, distribution across data centers creates additional challenges for the timely and consistent distribution of data updates. Improving the data store's performance will also benefit the energy efficency. Increasing the number of data store operations per time slice also increases the time that  storage components can be put into low-power modes.

Preceding this year's EuroSys conference in Prague was the 7th installment of the associated doctoral workshop (EuroDW). ParaDIME team member Thomas Knauth presented his PhD work on energy-efficient web services in a 10 minute talk at the workshop. The workshop also encouraged the presenters to bring along posters describing their work.