PhD Workshop on Next-Generation Cloud Infrastructure - Microsoft Cambridge

The workshop in Microsoft Cambridge was a two-days of multidisciplinary topics for the next-generation of cloud infrastructure in Europe. I was able to talk to researchers of different fields about the common topic of data-center, which is one of the goals of my current research. We were hosted in a hotel in Cambridge/UK near the event location, and it was easy to arrive and have a good rest in the night.

The first lecture was about "how to give a research talk" with Simon Peyton Jones, which was informative and fun! We also heard about optical storage for long-term using ultrafast laser optics to store data in quartz glass (project silica). The honeycomb project which proposes specialized hardware for storage systems (project honeycomb), and the iris project to use new hardware and optical technologies for regional and Wide Area (WAN) cloud networks (project iris). It was well organized, and the topics of the lectures were enlightening.

Besides the Microsoft research lectures, we had two poster sections. It was an informal and enjoyable part of the workshop about the general topic of cloud infrastructure. I was also able to present some of the results of my research project (link to Stenio's poster).