{"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":"2026-05-23T12:06:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T11:06:18","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-995f960e 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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SOC\u00b2 Lab is a research lab at the School of Computer Science, University College Dublin, working on sustainable, resilient, and intelligent orchestration across the edge\u2013cloud and broader computing continuum. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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\u2013orbital 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SOC\u00b2 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our research focuses on three connected directions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Energy-efficient and carbon-aware resource orchestration<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Adaptive execution and resilient service orchestration across heterogeneous infrastructures<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Distributed AI, LLM@Edge, and orchestration across terrestrial and orbital computing infrastructures<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We welcome researchers, visiting scholars, postdoctoral fellows, and prospective PhD students interested in sustainable orchestration, resilient distributed systems, and intelligent edge\u2013cloud computing.<\/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 class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/soc2.ucd.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/SOC2-Logo-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soc2.ucd.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/SOC2-Logo-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/soc2.ucd.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/SOC2-Logo-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/soc2.ucd.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/SOC2-Logo-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/soc2.ucd.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/SOC2-Logo-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/soc2.ucd.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/SOC2-Logo.png 1254w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sustainable Orchestration in Computing Continuum Lab SOC\u00b2 Lab is a research lab at the School of Computer Science, University College Dublin, working on sustainable, resilient, and intelligent orchestration across the edge\u2013cloud and broader computing continuum. Modern digital services and AI workloads no longer run in a single place. 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