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The Collaboration in Scalable Computing Systems

Published Feb 03, 2014

SCALE is a collaboration between KTH and SICS on Scalable Computing Systems, with research groups on distributed systems, multicore computing, and constraint programming.

Professor Christian Schulte

The collaboration is managed by Sverker Janson , director of the Computer Systems Laboratory at SICS and Christian Schulte , professor at KTH . Other professors from KTH in the project are Seif Haridi , Vladimir Vlassov and Mats Brorsson .

SCALE’s unifying research theme is scalability.
– Scalable computing systems increase in performance with additional hardware and remain efficient and practical under larger input data sets, increasing numbers of users, and larger numbers of participating nodes, explains Christian Schulte, professor in Computer Science at KTH.

SCALE is uniquely poised to address major research challenges in computer systems of critical significance to industry and society:

  • The bandwidth requirements on wireless communications systems (3G, LTE, and beyond) are increasing exponentially, necessitating extreme scalability.
  • More and more diverse devices connected in the era of the Internet of Things exacerbate system requirements.
  • Billions of connected users and devices generate huge amounts of data, which require scalable processing in the cloud and novel scalable algorithms.
  • Novel big data sets from genomics and the Internet of things require secure, scalable storage infrastructure as well as secure data-intensive computing support.
  • As requirements increase on both applications and underlying computer systems, novel programming technologies are needed to manage increased complexity.

– SCALE focuses on research challenges that reshape our society: how can computer systems scale with the ever-increasing demands in communication, connectivity, and computing power. Research is conducted with both academic and industrial impact, leveraging the complementary skills of KTH and SICS, says Christian Schulte.

High-impact and genuine collaboration with industry fundamentally requires that a set of complementary skills is available for the very same project from KTH and SICS: academic expertise and leadership as well as pre-development and technology transfer skills.

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