Sustainable Orchestration in Computing Continuum Lab
SOC² Lab is a research lab at the School of Computer Science, University College Dublin, working on sustainable, resilient, and intelligent orchestration across the edge–cloud and broader computing continuum.
Modern digital services and AI workloads no longer run in a single place. They are increasingly distributed across end devices, edge infrastructure, cloud platforms, federated multi-site environments, and emerging terrestrial–orbital computing infrastructures. This shift creates a central systems challenge: how to decide where, when, and under what constraints services should run when resources are heterogeneous, carbon intensity varies, connectivity changes, and failures are unavoidable.
SOC² Lab addresses this challenge by developing orchestration models, algorithms, and systems that embed sustainability and dependability into the design of distributed computing systems. Across our work, we study how services and AI workloads can be placed, adapted, and recovered across heterogeneous computing and networking environments.
Our research focuses on three connected directions:
- Energy-efficient and carbon-aware resource orchestration
- Adaptive execution and resilient service orchestration across heterogeneous infrastructures
- Distributed AI, LLM@Edge, and orchestration across terrestrial and orbital computing infrastructures
These directions share a common systems core: making orchestration decisions under changing resource, energy, network, and reliability conditions. The resulting work supports application domains such as smart cities, intelligent buildings, resilient digital services, and computing under constrained connectivity.
We welcome researchers, visiting scholars, postdoctoral fellows, and prospective PhD students interested in sustainable orchestration, resilient distributed systems, and intelligent edge–cloud computing.
