Red Hat Research Quarterly
“That’s what open source is all about”: a short history of collaboration, innovation, and education in research
An interview with Paul Cormier and Professor Orran Krieger
Volume 5, Issue 1 • ISSN 2691-5278
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In 2017, Red Hat Chairman Paul Cormier and Boston University (BU) professor Orran Krieger helped spearhead a collaborative partnership between the two institutions that would come to include expanding Red Hat’s participation in the MOC Alliance, the establishment of the Red Hat Collaboratory at BU for research incubation, and the creation of a Red Hat […]
Cost optimization is a core challenge for users of cloud computing platforms. An open source tool is now available to solve it. The era of cloud computing has introduced endless possibilities through access to vast amounts of computing power, storage, and software over the internet. This growth has led to a shift towards remote work, […]
Presenting BayOp, a generic ML-enhanced controller that optimizes network application efficiency by automatically controlling performance and energy trade-offs. As global datacenter energy use rises and energy budgets are constrained, it becomes increasingly important for operating systems (OS) to enable higher efficiency and get more work done while consuming less. Concurrently, the environmental footprint of hardware […]
Ahmed Sanaullah
Ulrich Drepper
When the research interests that eventually coalesced into Red Hat Research first started, open hardware innovation was not a central feature on our roadmap. We asked Distinguished Engineer Ulrich Drepper and Senior Data Scientist (FPGAs) Ahmed Sanaullah to explain how and why that changed. Uli leads Red Hat’s research and future vision on artificial intelligence, […]
Researchers, interns, and industry engineers have joined forces to create an open education platform using Red Hat OpenShift Data Science. Open source technology has transformed many industries, and education is now poised to be the next frontier. Open Education (OPE), an innovative project initiated by Boston University professor Jonathan Appavoo, is revolutionizing how education is […]
Jaroslav Řezník
Petr Švenda
Seccerts is a much-needed tool for data scraping and analysis of security certificates, but creating it was harder than expected. Here’s why. Security certification documents from certification schemes like Common Criteria (CC) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) contain valuable, detailed information. Most of it, however, is […]
Heidi Dempsey
Gagan Kumar
The open cloud has been both cornerstone and North Star for Red Hat Research. Our relationship with the Mass Open Cloud (MOC) and its more recent iteration, the MOC Alliance, has been critical to advancing our understanding of open cloud architecture and the many possibilities it opens for research. (Look no further than our interview […]
Bandan Das
Daniel Bristot de Oliveira
Red Hat Research has fostered work on testing and analysis that started as open source explorations and ended as valuable upstreamed resources for anyone to use. We asked two engineers who’ve worked on highly successful projects, Daniel Bristot de Oliveira and Bandan Das, to share some of the biggest research accomplishments so far and let […]
RHRQ asked Lily Sturmann, a senior software engineer at Red Hat in the Office of the CTO in Emerging Technologies, to look back at the past few years of research in the area of security and privacy research and share her perspective on the future. She has contributed frequently to the Red Hat Next blog, […]
Sanjay Arora
Marek Grác
Red Hat Research focuses on accelerating the practical applications for artificial intelligence and machine learning by combining academic approaches and industry use cases. Rather than focusing purely on advancing AI/ML techniques, we identify research collaborations where they can play a central role in solving computing problems. The AI/ML projects we’ve highlighted in past issues drive […]
Matej Hrušovský
Sarah Coghlan
Enabling hands-on, experiential opportunities for students at multiple learning levels has been a mainstay of the Red Hat Research mission. Mentoring students in open source development, teaching classes, creating curriculum, and contributing to education infrastructure are all ways of growing a robust open source research community. That in turn benefits students, the companies that hire […]
Things at Red Hat Research have been racing forward lately as we begin seeing the results of work we started years ago. Already in 2023, we have successfully completed the OpenShift deployment at the New England Research Cloud, the Unikernel Linux paper was accepted at EuroSys 2023 (the premier conference on system software research), and […]
Each quarter, Red Hat Research Quarterly highlights new and ongoing research collaborations from around the world. This quarter we highlight collaborative projects from Graz University of Technology (Austria), Masaryk University (Czech Republic), and Karlstad University (Sweden) Contact academic@redhat.com for more information on any project described here, or explore more research projects at research.redhat.com. PROJECT: Researching and […]