Author: Bernhard Heinloth

On March 7, Tobias Langer successfully defended his dissertation Software-based Memory Consistency Mechanisms for Non-Coherent Many-Core Systems, which he wrote as part of the Transregional Collaborative Research Center Invasive Computing. In addition to his doctoral supervisor Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Sc...

From February 27 to 29, the staff of the Chairs of Computer Science 4 and 16 met for a joint retreat at Kloster Schwanberg. The participants presented insights into their past year and their research work. The topics were discussed in group and new ideas were generated. The days were rounded off ...

On Friday, Andreas Ziegler successfully defended his dissertation Automated Tailoring of System Software Stacks on the application-oriented tailoring of Linux kernel and userspace in Hannover. Since his doctoral supervisor Prof. Daniel Lohmann joined Leibniz Universität Hannover in 2017, Andreas was...

After more than 20 years as a full professor at the Chair of Computer Science 4 at FAU, Professor Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat, called wosch, will begin his retirement on October 1. His career began at TU Berlin, where he studied computer science from 1975 to 1981, and earned his doctora...

On Monday, Stefan Reif successfully defended his PhD thesis with the topic "Estimable and Scalable Coordination of Multithreaded Processes". Congratulations!

Instead of research projects and lectures, an excursion of our chairs to Franconian Swiss was on the agenda at July 20, taking a kayak tour on the picturesque Wiesent river. Having best weather conditions and framed by a fascinating natural scenery, the trip went from Doos to Muggendorf - mostly on ...

Our chair was represented with substantial contributions at the 35th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2023) in Vienna: On Tuesday, July 11, Peter Wägemann organized the 21st International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis (WCET 2023). The following day, Eva Dengler pr...

On Monday, July 10, Bernhard Heinloth presented his research paper Luci: Loader-based Dynamic Software Updates for Off-the-shelf Shared Objects on the possibility of transparently updating program libraries at process runtime at the 2023 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC23). In addition, Hen...

Tobias Distler presented Micro Replication a novel design concept for fault-tolerant state machines, at the 53rd Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2023) in Porto on Wednesday, June 28. By dividing the protocol into small, specialized, and independent...

On June 14, Dustin Nguyen presented the research paper Back to the Core-Memory Age: Running Operating Systems in NVRAM only on the 36th GI/ITG International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS 2023) in Athens. For this work, the operating systems Linux and FreeBSD were adapted to ...