Systems Innovation
Algorithmic and hardware innovation for efficient, reliable, and sustainable cloud services and infrastructure at scale
Projects
In the past fifteen years, the most significant paradigm shift in the computing industry is the migration to cloud computing, which brings unprecedented opportunities of digital transformation to business, society, and human life. The implication of this is profound. It…
We are actively pursuing a sustainable form of cloud computing, Green Cloud Computing, to reduce the energy consumption and cut down carbon emission accordingly.
The Zissou project is exploring immersion cooling in large-scale cloud platforms. Our main motivation is that chip power has been steadily increasing since the end of Dennard scaling.
Project HSD is a collaboration between Microsoft Research Cambridge and Microsoft Azure to re-imagine an old idea – holographic storage – as a cloud-first design. We are capitalizing on the recent exponential improvement and commoditization in optical technologies such as…
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Project Sankie infuses data-driven techniques into engineering processes, development environments, and software lifecycles of large services.