The Institute for Computing Systems Architecture (ICSA) is one of 6 research institutes in @infAtEd , @EdinburghUni

Joined December 2019
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ICSA faculty Amir Shaikhha @ashaikhha has been awarded the prestigious Dahl-Nygard junior prize for his pioneering interdisciplinary work, spanning programming language design, compiler construction, and data management for AI and machine learning (2025.ecoop.org/track/ecoop-2…).

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Many congratulations to our colleague @luo_mai who has been promoted to Reader (Associate Professor)! This is a result of the significant contributions Luo has made over the recent years in terms of world-leading research, teaching, and academic service.
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ICSA@InformaticsEdinburgh retweeted
Happy to be promoted to Reader (Associate Professor) at Edinburgh📖 Huge thanks to referees, collaborators, colleagues and students!
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Dilina from ICSA presents his work "Hydra: Composing Microservices and Serverless for Load Resilience" at SESAME 24. It enables microservices to handle unpredictable load spikes efficiently using serverless functions. Coauthors: Shyam J, Boris Grot, et al.
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My research team is heading to #EuroSys24! Georgia Christofidi will present her work on cloud resource management and @kon_papaioannou his work on systems for LLM inference, both at the #EuroMLSys24 workshop. See you there! @IMDEA_Software @EuroSys_conf @euromlsys
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ICSA@InformaticsEdinburgh retweeted
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A great team effort by fantastic people, and thanks a lot to the support from our colleagues at Edinburgh which provides rich GPU resources (EIDF) and collaborative research environments (ICSA & Informatics). @InfAtEd @icsaAtEd @EPCCed
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Our system ServerlessLLM got accepted into #OSDI24! This system features a new LLM checkpoint format, multi-tier LLM loader, inference live migration, and more! This work is led by Yao Fu. Joint with Leyang, Yeqi, Andrei, @DmitriiUstiugov, and Yuvraj. Congratulations on the team!
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Michael O'Boyle has received the 2014 Test of Time Award  for his paper "Portable Mapping of Data Parallel Programs to OpenCL for Heterogeneous Systems" at CGO 2024! This award is for the most impactful paper from a decade ago. This is Michael's third CGO Test of Time award.
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Murray Cole and Bjoern Franke have received the Distinguished Paper award at CGO for their paper "Revealing Compiler Heuristics through Automated Discovery and Optimization"! This work was in collaboration with @AIatMeta This is Murray's second distinguished CGO paper award.
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An amazing start!
The main @HpcaArchConf @CGOconf @PPoPPConf starts today, with @Tobias_Grosser and @MichelSteuwer from the #ExCALIBUR @xdslproject welcoming people to Edinburgh
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ICSA@InformaticsEdinburgh retweeted
Come be part of my team in the magical city of Edinburgh! I'm currently seeking passionate PhD students to work with me on software engineering projects, with an emphasis on security and privacy. Have questions or ready to apply? Feel free to reach out or apply directly here:
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TorchOpt has been developed by Jie Ren, Yao Fu, and @luo_mai here at ICSA. Now part of the @PyTorch ecosystem and published in @JmlrOrg, TorchOpt supports many modes of differentiation, offers flexible programming abstractions, and efficient training! github.com/metaopt/torchopt
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Welcome to the PyTorch Ecosystem, TorchOpt! 🎉 TorchOpt is revolutionizing differentiable optimization with its unified programming abstraction and powerful differentiation modes. Check it out: hubs.la/Q01WLmN50
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ICSA@InformaticsEdinburgh retweeted
I am looking for a motivated PhD student for August'24 intake, with a research focus on cloud systems and systems for ML (e.g., LLM serving or cloud/edge AI). Fully funded. DM or email. App deadline is Jan 31st, hurry up :) More info: ustiugov.github.io

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vHive is a full-stack open-source ecosystem for serverless cloud benchmarking developed at ICSA by @DmitriiUstiugov and others. Today vHive is used extensively by the research community. vhive-serverless.github.io Apply now for post-doc positions! t.ly/M27ty
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31 Oct 2023
Attending the 14th Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC 2023) in Santa Cruz, California. Thanks to the @SICSA_Scotland for supporting such opportunities!
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ICSA@InformaticsEdinburgh retweeted
Today we were fortunate to have Andrew Fitzgibbon @Awfidius as the guest lecturer in our Extreme Computing course.
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ICSA@InformaticsEdinburgh retweeted
5 Jul 2023
Excited to be part of the PyTorch Ecosystem! My team in Edinburgh has spent two years developing TorchOpt with global collaborators. TorchOpt enables large-scale meta-learning & differentiable optimization with numerous innovations in the AI system design. @InfAtEd @icsaAtEd
5 Jul 2023
Welcome to the PyTorch Ecosystem, TorchOpt! 🎉 TorchOpt is revolutionizing differentiable optimization with its unified programming abstraction and powerful differentiation modes. Check it out: hubs.la/Q01WLmN50
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