Treehouse, our proposal on energy-first software infrastructure designs for sustainable cloud computing has recently won a three million dollar joint funding from NSF and VMware! Here is a link to the VMware press release. SymbioticLab now has a chance to collaborate with a stellar team consisting of Tom Anderson, Adam Belay, Asaf Cidon, and Irene Zhang, and I’m super excited about the changes Treehouse will bring to how we do sustainable cloud computing in near future.

Our team started with Asaf and I looking to go beyond memory disaggregation in early Fall of 2020. Soon we managed to convince Adam to join us, who introduced Irene to the idea; both of them are experts in efficient software designs. Finally, together we managed to get Tom to lead our team, and many ideas about an energy-first redesign of cloud computing software stacks started to sprout.

The early steps in building Treehouse is already under way. Last month, we had our first inaugural mini-workshop with more than 20 attendees, and I expect it to grow only bigger in the near future. Stay tuned!