SREcon24 Europe/Middle East/Africa

Thomas Fricke


Let us have look into the resource consumption of data centers and collect the current state of knowledge. There will be more questions than answers but predictions can be made because all resources have their limits.

The increase has already been exponential for years. With the AI hype, the demand for energy, cooling, water and other resources has increased dramatically.

The existing GPU based computing paradigm cuts hard into the standard design of data centers and demands other ways of cooling.


https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon24emea/presentation/fricke

Hillel Wayne


What makes software engineering different from “traditional” engineering? To find out, I interviewed 17 “crossovers”: people who have worked professionally as both a software and a traditional engineer. In aggregate, we learn three things: we are in fact engineers, we’re not actually that different as a field, and there’s a lot we can both teach and learn.


https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon24emea/presentation/wayne