Computer Architecture & Systems

$1.1 Million Awarded to Joint Study on Impacts of Data Centers in Norway’s Clean Energy Transition

July 13, 2023

As Norway strives to position itself as a hub for global digital infrastructure—building data centers for cloud storage and processing—questions about the benefits and tradeoffs of digitalization are being brought to the forefront of its sustainability policy. Now, through a government-backed initiative, the Research Council of Norway has awarded more than $1.1 million in funding […]

2024 Red Hat Collaboratory Research Incubation Award Recipients

December 14, 2023

By Ken Rudolph, Hariri Institute The Red Hat Collaboratory at Boston University has announced the recipients of its 2024 Research Incubation Awards. Twelve new and renewed research projects received nearly $2 million in funding to support research in topics ranging from reconfigurable hardware to homomorphic encryption, energy efficiency, and training models for autonomous vehicles. This […]

Ask the Experts – How Are Data Centers Impacted by Climate Change?

October 12, 2022

BY TRISHA BALAN & GINA MANTICA Our digital lives are often removed from the physical world, but with the growing problem of climate change, the physical is beginning to adversely affect the digital. Data centers, the key facilities that house computer systems, are becoming less efficient with changes in global temperatures. Over the summer, the […]

Creating Safe, Energy-Efficient Buildings in a Post-Covid World

June 30, 2021

Smart building technology has been a growing trend in the commercial real estate sector to help building owners and other stakeholders automate processes, reduce costs, boost energy efficiency, and improve the comfort of tenants. In a post-covid world, its adoption is expected to increase as safety amenities top the list of concerns of tenants planning […]

Data and Misinformation in an Era of Sustainability and Climate Change Crises

February 19, 2026

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Developing a Cloud-Based Platform to Standardize Data Storage from Wearable Brain Sensing Devices

September 23, 2021

BY GINA MANTICA To study how the brain works in the real world rather than the lab, researchers are creating wearable devices that obtain a complete picture of the brain’s activity in real time. But the complex data collected by researchers needs to be stored, organized, and shared in a way that allows for more […]

First trip to Mars: How to Pack Light

February 19, 2026

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Graduate Student Fellow Addresses Ecological Research Challenges with Computing

June 21, 2021

BY: DEIRDRE SHAHAR Computing is the way of the future for scientific research, including ecological studies. Luca Morreale, a Graduate Student Fellow at the Hariri Institute, conducts research on how humans, roads, cities, and other developments affect forests in the Northeast. While publicly collected datasets offer large opportunities for ecologists to learn this information, these […]

Modeling metabolism with math

July 26, 2021

BY GINA MANTICA A bunch of interconnected chemical reactions throughout our body keep us alive. These metabolic networks are key to understanding the evolution of life on earth. But studying them in the lab can be costly and time consuming. Computer modeling, while often simplistic, can provide researchers with efficient insights into how metabolism is […]

New England Research Cloud’s Affordable Production Cloud Services Now Available to General Research and Education Users

November 28, 2023

By Alex Grzybowski, Hariri Institute for Computing The Mass Open Cloud (MOC) Alliance announced the opening of the New England Research Cloud (NERC) to general research and education users. The NERC is a production cloud, operated by BU and Harvard Research IT, that supports VMs, containers, S3 storage, and an AI as a service platform. NERC […]

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