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We are excited to announce two open research internship positions -- each offering a clear path to a fully-funded PhD position for successful interns upon completion. These six-month internships provide an outstanding opportunity for motivated graduates in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or ...

From 25 to 28 February, the members of the Chair of Computer Science 4 (Systems Software) met for their annual retreat at the Abtei Frauenwörth (https://www.frauenwoerth.de/) on the Fraueninsel at the Chiemsee. In numerous presentations, the participants shared their research ideas and overall pr...

In the first week of December, Laura Lawniczak and Maximilian Seidler attended the Middleware conference in Hong Kong. Maximilian, together with Kilian Müller from LITES, presented their paper NimbleNet: Serverless Computing for the Extreme Edge in Factory Environments at the WoSC workshop. Laur...

This year's Herbsttreffen of the SYS division took place at the University of Stuttgart on October 24 and 25. On October 24, the Fachgruppen “Betriebssysteme" (FGBS) and “Kommunikation und Verteilte Systeme" (KuVS) first met for a joint meeting, at which the Townhall Meeting of the SYS department...

Last month, Luis has presented his recent work on improved Spectre mitigations for Linux eBPF at Linux Plumbers Conference (LPC) and the 27th International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID’24) (the former being located in Vienna, Austria and the latter in Padua, Italy)...

Last week, Eva Dengler took part at the ECRTS in Lille, France. She presented our work "Crêpe: Clock-Reconfiguration-Aware Preemption Control in Real-Time Systems with Devices", written together with Peter Wägemann. The paper targets the optimization of time-critical real-time systems with device ...

The third edition of the HotCarbon workshop takes place today in Santa Cruz, California. Our chair participates with the paper "CO2CoDe: Towards Carbon-Aware Hardware/Software Co-Design for Intermittently-Powered Embedded Systems", for which Phillip Raffeck recorded a video talk. With the help of an...

Last week, Phillip Raffeck attented the PLDI conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. At the co-hosted conference LCTES he presented our paper WoCA: Avoiding Intermittent Execution in Embedded Systems by Worst-Case Analyses with Device States, an approach to give forward progress guarantees for intermitte...

From May 13th to May 16th a number of conferences and workshops took place during the Cyper-Physical Systems and Internet of Things Week (CPS-IoT Week) in Hong Kong. This included the 30th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), where our colleague Harald Böhm prese...

A group from our chair attended the Eurosys 2024 in Athens from April 22 to 25. The largest European conference on system software once again covered a wide variety of topics, ranging from networking, storage systems, distributed systems, compilers, scheduling, to many papers on or using machine lea...

Signe Schwarz-Rüsch successfully defended her dissertation Blockchain-Based Architectures for Decentralized Data Access. Before joining the i4, Signe worked as research assistant at the Institute of Operating Systems and Computer Networks at the TU Braunschweig. Besides her doctoral superviso...

On March 14 and 15, Timo Hönig (Ruhr Universität Bochum) and Peter Ulbrich (TU Dortmund) jointly hosted this year's spring meeting of the Operating-Systems Special-Interest Group in Bochum. Under the motto Betriebssysteme im Revier, current developments in the operating systems community in Germany...

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 ...

Just before Christmas, on Wednesday, December 20th, Michael Eischer successfully defended his dissertation Geo-Replicated Byzantine Fault-Tolerant State-Machine Replication with Low Latency on the reduction of latency and latency variants of Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) systems in a geo-replicated...

On Tuesday, December 5, students and staff met up with their partners for a Christmas party at the Aquarium. The past year was reviewed in a convivial atmosphere with excellent dishes and desserts as well as the usual hot drinks for this time of year. The evening was rounded off, in keeping with tr...

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...

Members of the I4's research staff have recently visited this year's ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP'23) in Koblenz. Various talks from different areas of systems research have been presented and discussed at the main conference. Further, I4 staff member Maximilian Ott has pr...

Just in time before the new term starts, Prof. Pascal Felber in cooperation with  ETH Zürich and co-organizers Prof. Rüdiger Kapitza and Prof. Christof Fetzer invite to a Workshop at Monte Verità. From our chair Prof. Rüdiger Kapitza, Thomas Preisner and Maxim Ritter von Onciul participated in the w...

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...

Our former student assistant Eva Dengler has won the Graduate Award 2023 of the GI Special Interest Group on Operating Systems with her master thesis on "Clock-Tree-Aware Resource Consumption Models for Embedded SoC Platforms". The work was supervised by Peter Wägemann and was part of the DFG projec...

On September 28 and 29, Michael Engel invited to this year's fall meeting of the Operating Systems Group at the Otto-Friedrich-University of Bamberg. Under the heading From Programming Languages to Operating Systems, six sessions with a total of 19 presentations provided enough space to discuss the ...

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...

From July 8th to 9th the oldest 24-hour road bike race took place in Kelheim. In this race a 17km long circuit, which passes the Befreiungshalle, is ridden in teams of 5 within 24 hours - the goal is to do this as often as possible within 24 hours, with a maximum of one rider per team on the course ...

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 ...

A delegation from our chairs took part in EuroSys 2023 in Rome from 8 to 12 May. As one of the largest conferences for system software, the conference program covered a wide range of topics. In addition to classic topics, such as operating systems or cloud computing, related areas, such as machine l...

Maxim, Thomas and Harald started this month as new research assistants at the chair. All of them supported us during their studies as tutors in SPiC, SP and BS and gained insight into our research topics while writing their theses. Already in their second week of work they had the opportunity to...

Antônio Augusto Fröhlich, Director of the Software/Hardware Integration Lab (LISHA) and Full Professor at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) in Florianópolis, Brazil, will be visiting the Chair from April 25-27, 2023. In addition to scientific talks on topics related to the collaborat...

On March 6 and 7, Prof. Horst Schirmeier hosted this year's spring meeting in Dresden, the city of the inventors of the disposable coffee filter and the L4Re microkernel. Six sessions with a total of 14 talks provided enough space to present and discuss current research topics in the context of ope...

On March 2, José Luis Conradi Hoffmann and Leonardo Passig Horstmann, PhD students under the supervision of Antônio Augusto Fröhlich at the Software/Hardware Integration Lab (LISHA) of the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) in Florianópolis, Brazil, started their one-year research stay at...

All good things come in twos: Once again, our former student employee Henriette Hofmeier was able to win a sponsorship award with her master thesis on the topic "Dynamic Reconfiguration of Hardware-Vulnerability Mitigations in the Linux Kernel", this time the Preis der Fachgruppe Frauen und Technik ...

At the beginning of the lecture-free period, the staff of the two chairs of Computer Science 4 and 16 met for a joint retreat at Drübeck Abbey from February 13 to 15. There, the participants presented their current research work, looked back on the progress in the past year and collected suggesti...

Our former student assistant Henriette Hofmeier has won the ASQF (Arbeitskreis Software-Qualität und -Fortbildung e.V.) Sponsorship Award 2023 with her master thesis on "Dynamic Reconfiguration of Hardware-Vulnerability Mitigations in the Linux Kernel". The thesis was supervised by Timo Hönig, forme...

Three papers with participation of Prof. Rüdiger Kapitza were published at this year's Middleware conference in Quebec City, Canada: SplitBFT: Improving Byzantine Fault Tolerance Safety Using Trusted Compartments by Ines Messadi, EventChain: A Blockchain Framework for Secure, Privacy-Preserving Even...

As a student, Eva Dengler not only supported us as a tutor, but was also involved in the InvasIC research project. On 1st of November, we welcome her as a new research assistant at our chair, where she will work on the adaptation of energy-constrained real-time systems as part of the Watwa research...

The energy crisis requires a comprehensive analysis of electricity consumption in search of potential savings in university facilities. The several dozen desktop PCs at the chair, which are used daily by both students and scientific staff, came into focus. Since remote access (e.g. via SSH) has b...

On September 19 and 20, the fall meeting of the GI Operating Systems Group took place in Erlangen, where current research topics in the German-speaking field were discussed -- with about 120 participants, a new record was set. In three sessions there were a total of 10 presentations on various aspec...

The Adhoc Committee on the Supraregional Research Program in Computer Science of the Federal Ministry of Education and Science recommended the founding of the Chair of Computer Science IV (Operating Systems) in its meeting on March 18, 1970, which was then created by the Bavarian State Ministry of E...

On September 1, the chair Department of Computer Science 16 / System Software started its work under the direction of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rüdiger Kapitza. We also welcome three new research assistants Ines Messadi, Signe Rüsch and Arne Vogel as colleagues. The i16 shares not only the logo but also th...

After a break of 2 years due to the pandemic, the team at the Chair of Computer Science 4 was able to gather again for its excursion last Friday. Far away from the keyboards, the team enjoyed the fresh air in the Franconian Switzerland. The excursion started with morning sports in the Kletterwald Po...

The robot soccer team of the university has won the title of runner-up in the Small Size League at this year's RoboCup in Thailand. We would like to congratulate them on this success! The team was able to build on the successes of previous years and defend the title of world runner-up, as in the dig...

Phillip Raffeck attended OSPERT workshop and the ECRTS conference in Modena, Italy this week. At the workshop he presented our paper Revisiting Migration Overheads in Real-Time Systems: One Look at Not-So-Uniform Platforms, which provides fundamental insights for our research project maRE in collabo...

We start the summer semester 2022 with a newly designed website and a wide range of courses. After more than two years of coronavirus, virtual and hybrid teaching, we are pleased to offer teaching predominantly in presence again from this semester on. Please note: Our courses are primarily taught...

According to the FAU hygiene measures (as of April 8), a minimum distance of 1.5m should always be maintained as far as the premises allow. In addition, masks are still mandatory, for which at least a surgical mask, but better FFP2 mask, must be worn. Exception: The mask may be taken off when se...

Maximilian Ott, who already worked in our operating system section during his studies (and also as a tutor for many years), will start as a research assistant at the chair on April 15 in order to be able to deepen his research activities. Furthermore, he will support the team of System-Level Program...

To provide a web site that is barrier-free and conform to the FAU Corporate Design, the Chair of Computer Science 4 is now launching sys.cs.fau.de with the latest FAU design based on WordPress. Of course, the previous principles will be maintained: All information about the chair and its researc...