How sKVM Will Beat the I/O Performance of KVM

Follow @mikelangelo_eu In this article, we tell you how the MIKELANGELO project aims to improve the I/O performance of virtual machines. The inability of virtual machines to run HPC and big data applications in production due to low I/O performance motivates our work. Read on to learn why we want to improve the performance of…

Pisa. Photo by Irene Grassi, CC

MIKELANGELO at Cloud Forward 2015: Why You Should Care

Follow @mikelangelo_eu Have you ever wondered what happens if you put Europe’s finest cloud computing researchers in one place for three days? So have we. This is why we are joining the Cloud Forward 2015 Conference in Pisa. We are excited to discuss the future of computing with European thought leaders in all things cloud.…

Behind the Curtain with the MIKELANGELO Team in Stuttgart

The third MIKELANGELO face-to-face meeting took place on 8th and 9th of September 2015 in the Swabian metropolis of Stuttgart. A surprising amount of greenery gives the city its unique character. HLRS (University of Stuttgart) kindly hosted the meeting at their premises and also took the more-than-interested group of MIKELANGELO people into their major machine rooms.…

Mikelangelo’s Participation at the RRI-ICT 2015 Workshop

On the 8th and 9th of July 2015 our Mikelangelo representative participated in the “Getting started!” workshop of the Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) project (http://rri-ict.eu/). It took place in Brussels in the EGG, a modern post-industrial events location, which suited the interactive agenda of the workshop. engaging society…

The Mikelangelo Team The second Mikelangelo face-to-face meeting (10th and 11th of June 2015) brought summer to Ireland, all 3 days of it, if we’re to believe the taxi driver. Intel kindly hosted the general assembly meeting at their facilities in Leixlip. The main objective of the meeting was to define and strengthen the project’s objectives before…

Kick-Off Meeting

We have officially started the Mikelangelo project with a kick-off meeting in Ljubljana. Mikelangelo’s vision is to achieve significantly improved responsiveness, agility and security of virtual infrastructure through packaged applications, using the lean guest operating system OSv and super fast hypervisor – sKVM. Our mission is to provide the private cloud community with technologies for…