{"id":35,"date":"2025-09-04T20:18:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T19:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soc2.ucd.ie\/?page_id=35"},"modified":"2025-09-04T21:43:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T20:43:52","slug":"homepage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/soc2.ucd.ie\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns are-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sustainable Orchestration in Computing Continuum Lab<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Digital services and AI models are transforming our cities, buildings, and everyday lives &#8211; but they also consume enormous amounts of energy and resources. At SOC\u00b2 Lab, we ask a critical question:&nbsp;<strong>how can computing be both powerful and sustainable?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our research develops new ways to&nbsp;<strong>orchestrate services and AI workloads across the edge\u2013to\u2013cloud continuum<\/strong>, ensuring that future digital infrastructures are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Energy-efficient and carbon-aware<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Resilient and adaptive<\/strong>&nbsp;to dynamic environments<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Capable of running advanced AI<\/strong>, from&nbsp;<strong>LLM@Edge<\/strong>&nbsp;to distributed intelligence at global scale<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>From real-time urban analytics to building energy optimisation and resilient cloud\u2013edge systems, we design algorithms, models, and open science resources that directly contribute to a cleaner, smarter, and more sustainable digital future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/soc2.ucd.ie\/index.php\/about-soc2-lab\/\">About the Lab<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure style=\"margin-top:0;margin-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--70);margin-bottom:0;margin-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--70)\" class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"2304\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1594 \/ 2304;\" width=\"1594\" autoplay loop muted src=\"https:\/\/soc2.ucd.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/soc2-title-1.mp4\" playsinline><\/video><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sustainable Orchestration in Computing Continuum Lab Digital services and AI models are transforming our cities, buildings, and everyday lives &#8211; but they also consume enormous amounts of energy and resources. At SOC\u00b2 Lab, we ask a critical question:&nbsp;how can computing be both powerful and sustainable? Our research develops new ways to&nbsp;orchestrate services and AI workloads [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"coauthors":[18],"class_list":["post-35","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soc2.ucd.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soc2.ucd.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soc2.ucd.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soc2.ucd.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soc2.ucd.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/soc2.ucd.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"https:\/\/soc2.ucd.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soc2.ucd.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soc2.ucd.ie\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}