Lauritz Thamsen

If you speak two languages well, have you tried counting to 10 in alternating languages? I found it surprisingly mind-bending.

The general co-chairs of ICDCS 2025, Christos (Chris) Anagnostopoulos and Iadh Ounis, opening the main conference on Monday morning

Many thanks to Chris Anagnostopoulos for the kind invitation to attend and to the whole organizing team and many volunteers for the fantastic conference in Glasgow! 🙏

Always so good to meet colleagues in person – some for the first time, some again after a while! 😊

Having a good time with Drs Reza Farahani, Lauri Lovén, Ilir Murturi, and Paul Harvey ahead of the banquet dinner

Dr Blesson Varghese explaining how ML can be made feasible on small edge devices in his workshop keynote

Scottish treats in the coffee breaks – Tunnock's Tea Cakes and shortbread too!

As a vegetarian i was "in safe hands" at ICDCS, as this card says, identifying me as "vegi" :)

I had a great time at IEEE #ICDCS 2025. First time that I attended a conference without a talk or helping to organize, so this was a new experience! Of course, also rather nice to attend a top conference after 10 minutes on public transport (and after dropping off the wee one at nursery too ☺️)

Due to the world being a little unpredictable right now, we've extended the submission deadline for PROPL by a few days, so it's now 8th July 2025 AoE! conf.researchr.org/home/icfp-sp...

I am delighted to share that I won the Early-Career Teaching Excellence… | Lauritz Thamsen I am delighted to share that I won the Early-Career Teaching Excellence Award of the College of Science and Engineering at the University of Glasgow! 👨‍🏫🏰🎓✨ As an academic who cares about teaching ju...

Very happy to share that I won the Early-Career #Teaching Excellence #Award of the College of Science and Engineering at the University of Glasgow! ☺️👨‍🏫🏰🎓✨

Longer post: www.linkedin.com/posts/laurit...

@uofgcompsci.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social

Not sure how many people realize that battery storage already supplies 30% of California’s electricity demand at peak.

Batteries aren’t the future — they’re here now.

Exploring the Potential of Carbon-Aware Execution for Scientific Workflows Scientific workflows are widely used to automate scientific data analysis and often involve processing large quantities of data on compute clusters. As such, their execution tends to be long-running a...

4: Kathleen will be presenting a short paper on Carbon-Aware Workflow Execution, arxiv.org/abs/2503.13705. This will be Kathleen's first talk at a conference and we are actively working on extending our results in the EPSRC-funded project Casper, so you are most welcome to provide helpful feedback!

WOW: Workflow-Aware Data Movement and Task Scheduling for Dynamic Scientific Workflows Scientific workflows process extensive data sets over clusters of independent nodes, which requires a complex stack of infrastructure components, especially a resource manager (RM) for task-to-node as...

3: Fabian will be talking about WOW, arxiv.org/abs/2503.13072, which was accepted as a full paper too – and this one was in the works for a while, with Fabian driving the extensive experimental effort and managing the collaboration between five universities in context of the DFG-funded CRC FONDA!

Flora: Efficient Cloud Resource Selection for Big Data Processing via Job Classification Distributed dataflow systems like Spark and Flink enable data-parallel processing of large datasets on clusters of cloud resources. Yet, selecting appropriate computational resources for dataflow jobs...

2: Jonathan will summarize the full paper Flora, arxiv.org/abs/2502.21046. This is an outcome of our DFG-funded research project C5, demonstrating a low-overhead approach to cost-optimizing cloud cluster configurations for big data analytics, evaluated experimentally with 180 Spark application runs!

A slide listing our three contributions to the 25th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2025): - Wednesday, 21 May, 11 am (SSP2 session on Software Systems and Platforms – Cloud Continuum): Flora: Efficient Cloud Resource Selection for Big Data Processing via Job Classification (full paper) - Thursday, 22 May, 2 pm (SSP5 session on Software Systems and Platforms – Workflows and Workloads): WOW: Workflow-Aware Data Movement and Task Scheduling for Dynamic Scientific Workflows (full paper) - Wednesday, 21 May, 11 am (SIT2 session on Sustainable IT Systems): Exploring the Potential of Carbon-Aware Execution for Scientific Workflows (short paper)

1/4: If you are at #IEEE #CCGrid 2025 in #Tromsø next week, catch Jonathan, Fabian, and Kathleen (@westkath.bsky.social) presenting joint work! 📰🧵👇

#CCGrid #distributed #sustainable #cloud #computing #research #Spark #Nextflow

Graph showing clearly that CO2 levels in the atmosphere was flat for thousands of years before the industrial revolution and have now increased by 50% (to over 420 ppm). Over one third of the CO2 in the air is from human activity.

Apparently some folks are still confused about how much CO2 in the air has grown due to human activities. It's increased by more than 50%, which means over one third of all CO2 in the air is due to us.

2. The biggest problem is that AI is now good at the introductory problems, across every discipline. But introductory problems are necessary for learning.

LOCO2024 - SICSA SICSA - Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance

Following the 1st International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing (LOCO), we are now calling for bids to organize the 2nd LOCO workshop! 💻 🔬 🌱

Bids due: 13 May (AoE)

Notifications by: 4 June

Full call details: sicsa.ac.uk/loco/loco202...

#lowcarbon #sustainable #green #computing #research

International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing Channel for International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing, mirror of https://www.youtube.com/@loco-workshop

There's also an ad/cookie-free mirror kindly hosted by the Energy & Environment Group of Cambridge's Computer Laboratory, watch.eeg.cl.cam.ac.uk/c/loco/, thanks to @anil.recoil.org 🙏

YouTube video by International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing LOCO-2024 Lightning Talks

The 11 lightning talks were recorded as well of course: youtu.be/Wlus5KHbBDY ⚡💬

YouTube video by International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing LOCO-2024. Keynote discussion with Anne Currie. Strategically Green, UK

... and the #keynote #discussion we had with Strategically Green's fantastic @annecurrie.bsky.social: youtu.be/_nLrbIAng8o

YouTube video by International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing LOCO-2024. Keynote talk by Ayse Coskun. Boston University, USA

Let me also highlight the academic #keynote on "AI's Energy Challenge: Can Data Center-Power Grid Coordination Offer a Path to Sustainability?" by Boston University's Ayse Coskun: youtu.be/ClBSFDaqDrM

International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing Video Channel for International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing

The talk recordings from #LOCO2024 are online now: www.youtube.com/@loco-workshop 💻🔬🌱

There are 19 talks across 7 sessions covering energy efficiency, carbon awareness, frugal computing, sustainable software engineering, and the related fields of computing for climate science & energy informatics!

LOCO-2024. Keynote talk by Ayse Coskun. Boston University, USA Keynote talk by Ayse Coskun. Boston University, USA. (Session chair: Philipp Wiesner) 1st International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing. A hybrid event hosted in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 3 December...

Plus Ayse Coskun's LOCO 2024 keynote on the question "Can Data Center-Power Grid Coordination Offer a Path to Sustainability?"
watch.eeg.cl.cam.ac.uk/w/szVBBfJvdP...

LOCO2024 - SICSA SICSA - Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance

Following the 1st International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing (LOCO), we are now calling for bids to organize the 2nd LOCO workshop! 💻 🔬 🌱

Bids due: 13 May (AoE)

Notifications by: 4 June

Full call details: sicsa.ac.uk/loco/loco202...

#lowcarbon #sustainable #green #computing #research

From NYT article about the increasing use of AI in the classroom: “Writing is one of the most challenging tasks for students, which is why it is so tempting for some to ask A.I. to do it for them. In turn, A.I. can be useful for teachers who would like to assign more writing, but are limited in their time to grade it.”

Why even have a brain, any ideas, any ability to express them, any kind of communication with other people, any desire to solve problems or invent anything, any reason to learn, any use for your eyes or your heart, or any reason to teach or create

PROPL, the workshop that inspired us to organize LOCO, is back! This time it'll take place with both ICFP and SPLASH. Have a look at the website if programming/computing as a force for good is something you care about! 💻🌍🌱📄👇

PROPL 2025 - Programming for the Planet 2025 - ICFP/SPLASH 2025 There are simultaneous interlinked crises across the planet due to human actions: climate change, biodiversity loss, and desertification. Addressing these challenges requires, amongst other things, a ...

The 2nd Programming for the Planet workshop will be hybrid and co-located with ICFP/SPLASH in October in Singapore! Our call for papers is out at conf.researchr.org/home/icfp-sp..., submission deadline 3rd July 2025.

Happening right now at ACM EuroSys 2025 in Rotterdam! 🙂🔊💬

Program details below and on the website: tdis.gitlab.io/tdis25/

Open access proceedings: dl.acm.org/doi/proceedi...

Opinion | The Tech Fantasy That Powers A.I. Is Running on Fumes (Gift Article) A.I. is just what we need in the post-fact era: less research and more predicting what we want to hear.

This piece from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social starts with a bang and just gets better and better. Gift link.

(1) Robert Bayer (with Ties Robroek) has been working on a new benchmarking framework that can represent more complex end-to-end deep learning pipelines and different scales of edge computing. He will present this work at TDIS workshop, and the short paper is now out: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/....

"At the center of this work of forming the whole human person is the indispensable relationship between teacher and student.

Teachers do more than convey knowledge; they model essential human qualities and inspire the joy of discovery." 1/3

Blà Bheinn from Elgol, Isle of Skye #Scotland #IsleofSkye #Highlands www.damianshields.com

Blà Bheinn from Elgol, Isle of Skye #Scotland #IsleofSkye #Highlands www.damianshields.com

Screenshot of the program of the TDIS2025 workshop as it is on our website, https://tdis.gitlab.io/tdis25/

Very happy to share the program of the 3rd edition of our Distributed IoT Systems Testing Workshop #TDIS2025, as it will take place at the end of this month with ACM EuroSys and ASPLOS. Come along, if you will be around, for the five paper presentations and two keynote talks! 💻📡🚐🚆🏙️🎛️