Professorship for Operating Systems and Middleware
current teaching activities
current projects



current open source projects



For further projects, please refer to the OSM group on GitHub and the OSM group on GitLab.
current topics
- resource management from core to Cloud
- dynamic workload management in distributed systems
- dynamic, workload-dependent resource scaling (e.g., dynamic LPARs)
- memory optimizations for virtual machines (e.g., memory migration benchmarks)
- NUMA-aware programming with the PGASUS framework: applications, case studies, benchmarks
- architectures of future server systems
- lock-free data structures
- multicore/NUMA
- advanced topology discovery with bandwith and latency measurements: find shared interconnects
- accelerator programming / heterogeneous computing
- high-Level programming facilities for distributed GPU computing (e.g., CloudCL)
- high-level programming facilities for FPGAs (e.g., CAPI SNAP, OpenCL)
- virtualization / Containerization for GPUs or FPGAs
- FPGAs in IaaS Cloud Resources (e.g., Amazon F instances)
- hardware-accelerated memory-compression (e.g., DEFLATE, 842 compression)
- evaluation of integrated GPUs and APUs for latency-critical workloads (e.g., audio processing)
- new programming languages & frameworks: CAPI SNAP, Radeon Open Compute, etc.
- dependability and fault injection
- assessment
- fault tolerance of service-oriented architectures
- fault injection in distributed systems
- microservice architectures
- decentralized architectures (e.g., distributed ledgers)
- Internet of Things (e.g., Rail2X, IEEE 802.11p)