Projects
Project Summary RIG Universities hf:tax:rig hf:tax:partner_university QUBIP – Quantum-oriented Update to Browsers and Infrastructures for the PQ Transition The exciting frontiers opened by the development of quantum computers (QC) come at the cost of breaking the foundations of … Europe brno AIDA – A holistic AI-Driven networking and processing framework for Industrial IoT AIDA aims to enable novel trustworthy data-driven real-time industrial IoT applications by building a holistic AI-driven Networking and Processing framework. Indeed, … Europe Karlstad University brno karlstad-university AERO: Accelerated EuRopean clOud Several European flagship projects have emerged towards European sovereignty in chip design and computing infrastructure. Among them, the EU Processor … Europe National Technical University of Athens, University of Geneva, University of Manchester, University of Pisa brno national-technical-university-of-athens university-of-geneva university-of-manchester university-of-pisa CODECO: Cognitive Decentralised Edge Cloud Orchestration The overall aim of CODECO is to contribute to a smoother and more flexible support of services across the Edge-Cloud … Europe, Israel brno tel-aviv Curator Operator Curator is an air-gapped infrastructure consumption analysis tool for the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. The curator retrieves infrastructure … North America Boston University greater-boston boston-university CHESS: Cyber-security Excellence Hub in Estonia and South Moravia The Cyber-security Excellence Hub in Estonia and South Moravia (CHESS) brings together leading R&I institutions in both regions to build … Europe Brno University of Technology, Masaryk University brno brno-university-of-technology masaryk-university Improving Cyber Security Operations using Knowledge Graphs AbstractThe objective of this project is to improve the workflow and performance of security operation centers, including automating several of … North America Boston University greater-boston boston-university Tuning QUIC protocol for Ceph workloads QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections) is a general-purpose transport layer network protocol designed by Google offering significant advantages over TCP, … Israel Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Reichman University, Tel Aviv University tel-aviv hebrew-university-of-jerusalem reichman-university tel-aviv-university Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) mining and prediction With the continuous increase in reported Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs), security teams are overwhelmed by vast amounts of data, … Israel Reichman University, Tel Aviv University tel-aviv reichman-university tel-aviv-university Software diagnosis with log files This project aims to create an automated tool to identify software failures and isolate the faulty software components (e.g., classes … Israel Ben Gurion University tel-aviv ben-gurion-university AppLearner: learn and predict the resource consumption patterns of your application This project targets the problem of accurately estimating resource requirements for workloads running over Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and adjusting these estimations during the course of application execution. Israel Technion tel-aviv technion Minimal Mobile Systems via Cloud-based Adaptive Task Processing The high cost of robots today has hindered their widespread use. Specifically, a limiting factor involves extensive hardware and software … North America Boston University greater-boston boston-university Co-Ops: Collaborative Open Source and Privacy-Preserving Training for Learning to Drive Note: This project is a continuation of OSMOSIS: Open-Source Multi-Organizational Collaborative Training for Societal-Scale AI Systems. AbstractCurrent development of autonomous … North America Boston University greater-boston boston-university CoDes : A co-design research lab to advance specialized hardware projects CoDes research lab provides the infrastructure and engineering foundation needed to support co-design based specialized hardware research. The lab is currently located at Boston University, as part of the Red Hat – Boston University collaboratory. North America Boston University greater-boston boston-university Prototyping a Distributed, Asynchronous Workflow for Iterative Near-Term Ecological Forecasting AbstractThe ongoing data revolution has begun to fuel the growth of near-term iterative ecological forecasts: continually-updated predictions about the future … North America Boston University greater-boston boston-university FHELib: Fully Homomorphic Encryption Hardware Library for Privacy-preserving Computing Note: Please visit the Privacy-Preserving Cloud Computing using Homomorphic Encryption project page for information on a related project. In today’s … North America Boston University greater-boston boston-university SECURE-ED: Open-Source Infrastructure for Student Learning Disability Identification and Treatment The project aims to develop an infrastructure that would enable users to input data about an individual student and receive … North America Boston University greater-boston boston-university INCODE: Programming Platform for Intelligent Collaborative Deployments over Heterogeneous Edge-IoT Environments The emergence of cloud-computing, coupled with the shift of processing intelligence towards the very network edge has lowered the bar … Europe, Israel Panepistimio Patron, Politecnico di Milano, University of Manchester, University of the West of Scotland brno tel-aviv panepistimio-patron politecnico-di-milano university-of-manchester university-of-the-west-of-scotland DDoS Attacks on Cloud Auto-scaling Mechanisms Auto-scaling mechanisms are an important line of defense against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in the cloud. Using auto-scaling, … Israel Reichman University, Tel Aviv University tel-aviv reichman-university tel-aviv-university Relational Memory Controller Note: See the Near-Data Data Transformation project page for information about the work that led to this project. Abstract: Data movement … North America Boston University greater-boston boston-university Learned Cost-Models for Robust Tuning Note: Please see the Robust Data Systems Tuning project page for earlier results associated with this research. Abstract: Data systems’ performance is … North America Boston University greater-boston boston-university Security and safety of Linux systems in a BPF-powered hybrid user space/kernel world With the introduction of BPF into the Linux kernel, we are seeing a sea change in the traditional application model. With BPF it is now possible to execute parts of the application logic in kernel space, leading to a novel hybrid userspace/kernel model. This is an exciting development that brings with it many opportunities, but also some challenges especially in the area of security. We have recently seen an example of this around the “kernel lockdown” functionality in the kernel, which would disable BPF entirely in its “confidentiality” mode. Europe Karlstad University brno karlstad-university CONNECT: Continuous and Efficient Cooperative Trust Management for Resilient CCAM CONNECT addresses the convergence of security and safety in CCAM by assessing dynamic trust relationships and defining a trust reasoning … Israel tel-aviv ICOS: IoT2Cloud Operating System The ICOS project aims at covering the set of challenges coming up when addressing this continuum paradigm, proposing an approach embedding a well-defined set of functionalities, ending up in the definition of an IoT2cloud Operating System (ICOS). Europe, Israel National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Technische Universitãt Braunschweig, Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya (UPC) brno tel-aviv national-and-kapodistrian-university-of-athens technische-universitat-braunschweig universitat-politecnica-de-catalunya-upc Open-Source Toolchain Optimization for FPGA CAD Additional details to be added soon! Project Poster Link to full size project poster North America UMass Lowell greater-boston umass-lowell StrIoT: functional stream processing StrIoT is a functional stream-processing system written in the Haskell programming language. The StrIoT library provides a set of stream-processing … Europe Newcastle University brno newcastle-university Cloud Cost Optimizer The goal of this project is to design and implement a scalable multi-cloud cost optimizer capable of calculating the best … Israel Technion tel-aviv technion SnappyOS: Fault-Tolerant and Energy-Efficient Framework for HPC Applications This project aims to design, implement and evaluate a system to enhance the security and privacy of emerging satellite communications infrastructure using in-network computing and software-defined networking. Europe University of Oxford brno university-of-oxford Understanding accuracy decay in online image retrieval systems within the context of open-set classification and unsupervised clustering Image retrieval systems are extremely useful to political scientists and human rights advocates attempting to understand the scope and spread of disinformation in massive datasets. However, in standard image retrieval tasks the corpus of images is unchanging as time moves forward. When considering online disinformation this is clearly not the case. Image retrieval in an online system can essentially be modeled as an open-set problem, where there is no guarantee that the classes of images seen before will have any correspondence to the classes of images seen at present or in the future. North America University of Notre Dame greater-boston university-of-notre-dame Advanced proactive caching for heterogeneous storage systems This project targets improving the performance of distributed storage systems, such as Ceph and NooBaa, by developing novel caching frameworks … Israel Ben Gurion University tel-aviv ben-gurion-university Automated detection of memory safety vulnerabilities in Rust In comparison to C, the Rust language provides significant memory safety guarantees through its concept of lifetimes and its borrow-checker. … North America Columbia University greater-boston columbia-university Tuning the Linux kernel The Linux kernel is a complicated piece of software with multiple components interacting with each other in complex ways. The … North America greater-boston Disinformation Detection at Scale The increased prevalence of fake and manipulated visual media on the Internet has led to social and technical dilemmas in … North America UNICAMP - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, University of Notre Dame greater-boston unicamp-universidade-estadual-de-campinas university-of-notre-dame AI for Cloud Ops This project aims to address this gap in effective cloud management and operations with a concerted, systematic approach to building and integrating AI-driven software analytics into production systems. We aim to provide a rich selection of heavily-automated “ops” functionality as well as intuitive, easily-accessible analytics to users, developers, and administrators North America Boston University greater-boston boston-university Creating a global open research platform to better understand social sustainability using data from a real-life smart village A BU team is working with SmartaByar and the Red Hat Social Innovation Program in order to create a global … North America Boston University greater-boston boston-university DISL: A Dynamic Infrastructure Services Layer for Reconfigurable Hardware Open programmable hardware offers tremendous opportunities for increased innovation, lower cost, greater flexibility, and customization in systems we can now … North America Boston University greater-boston boston-university Practical Programming of FPGAs with Open Source Tools This project has evolved from the Practical programming of FPGAs in the data center and on the edge project. Please see … North America Boston University greater-boston boston-university Near-Data Data Transformation BU faculty members Manos Athanassoulis and Renato Mancuso will work with Red Hat researchers Uli Drepper and Ahmed Sanaullah to create a hardware-software co-design paradigm for data systems that implements near-memory processing. North America Boston University greater-boston boston-university Towards high performance and energy efficiency in open-source stream processing. BU faculty members Vasiliki Kalavari and Jonathan Appavoo will work with Red Hat researcher Sanjay Arora to create an open-source … North America Boston University greater-boston boston-university OSMOSIS: Open-Source Multi-Organizational Collaborative Training for Societal-Scale AI Systems The goal of our project is to develop a novel framework and cloud-based implementation for facilitating collaboration among highly heterogeneous research, development, and educational settings. North America Boston University greater-boston boston-university Privacy-Preserving Cloud Computing using Homomorphic Encryption Note: Please visit the FHELib: Fully Homomorphic Encryption Hardware Library for Privacy-preserving Computing project page for information on a related … North America Boston University greater-boston boston-university Serverless Streaming Graph Analytics In this project, we will focus on graph streams that can be used to model distributed systems, where workers are represented as nodes connected with edges that denote communication or dependencies. North America Boston University greater-boston boston-university Enabling Intelligent In-Network Computing for Cloud Systems With the network infrastructure becoming highly programmable, it is time to rethink the role of networks in the cloud computing … North America Boston University greater-boston boston-university Linux Computational Caching In this speculative work we are attempting to explore a biologically motivated conjecture on how memory of past computing can be stored and recalled to automatically improve a system’s behavior. North America Boston University greater-boston boston-university The Open Education Project (OPE) In this project we are developing an exemplar set of materials for an introductory computers systems class that exploits, Jupyter, Jupyter Books, OpenShift and the the Mass Open Cloud to develop and deliver a unique educational experience for learning about how computer systems work. North America Boston University greater-boston boston-university Symbiotes: A New step in Linux’s Evolution This work explores how a new kind of software entity, a symbiotie, might bridge this gap. By adding the ability for application software to shed the boundary that separates it from the OS kernel it is free to integrate, modify and evolve in to a hybrid that is both application and OS. North America Boston University greater-boston boston-university Intelligent Data Synchronization for Hybrid Clouds The goal of this project is to design configurable synchronization solutions on a common platform for a wide range of edge computing scenarios relevant to Red Hat. These solutions will be thoroughly validated on a state-of-the-art testbed capable of emulating realistic environments (e.g., smart cities). North America Boston University greater-boston boston-university Secure cross-site analytics on OpenShift logs The project aims to explore whether cryptographically secure Multi-Party Computation, or MPC for short, can be used to perform secure cross-site analytics on OpenShift logs with minimum client participation. North America Boston University greater-boston boston-university Robust Data Systems Tuning Note: Please see the Learned Cost-Models for Robust Tuning project page for research that has grown from this project. See … North America Boston University greater-boston boston-university Test Case Prioritization: Towards Efficient and Reliable Continuous Integration Automatic regression testing is a crucial step of any CI/CD pipeline. Its primary goal is to detect bugs and defects introduced by recent changes as early as possible while keeping verification costs at a very low level. The goal of the TCP project is to create a novel ML-based tool that solves the TCP (Test Case Prioritization) problem in software regression testing. Israel Reichman University tel-aviv reichman-university Robust LSM-Trees Under Workload Uncertainty We introduce a new robust tuning paradigm to aid in the design of data systems with uncertain assumptions by modeling the behavior of the system and then utilizing these models in conjunction with techniques in robust optimization. Our approach is demonstrated through tuning a popular log-structured merge-tree based storage engine, RocksDB North America Boston University greater-boston boston-university PHYSICS: oPtimized HYbrid Space-time servIce Continuum in faaS Join Red Hat Research for the next Research Days event, “PHYSICS EU Project: Advancing FaaS applications in the cloud continuum,” on November 16, 2022, … Europe, Israel brno tel-aviv SpotOS – a distributed cloud-based operating system over unreliable resources The aim of this project is to devise and implement a distributed cloud-based operating system that uses unreliable or temporarily … Israel Technion tel-aviv technion Does efficient, private, agnostic learning imply efficient, agnostic online learning? Users of online services today must trust platforms with their personal data. Platforms can choose to enable privacy by default … North America Boston University greater-boston boston-university Are Adversarial Attacks a Viable Solution to Individual Privacy? Users of online services today must trust platforms with their personal data. Platforms can choose to enable privacy by default … North America Boston University greater-boston boston-university Secured API in Hybrid Cloud Recently we see many companies that are moving their data from local data centers to public-managed clouds. But with these movements, some questions raise up. Israel Ariel University tel-aviv ariel-university Side-channel attacks on embedded devices and smartcards This project focuses on several aspects of side-channel attacks on embedded devices and smartcards, utilizing timing, power-analysis and other side-channels. … Europe Masaryk University brno masaryk-university SecCerts: Mining issued Common Criteria and FIPS140-2 certificates The security certification reports might be long but is also a trove of publicly available data about otherwise proprietary devices … Europe Masaryk University brno masaryk-university Kubernetes Optimized Service Discovery Across Clusters The Submariner project provides an ability to connect multiple Kubernetes clusters into a secure shared network which allows various services to communicate with each other. Israel Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Reichman University tel-aviv hebrew-university-of-jerusalem reichman-university Smart Commute Because an individual’s driving style has an impact of ~25/30% on the CO2 emissions and carpooling can save up to … Building the next generation of programmable networking – powered by Linux The project seeks to explore areas related to programmable networking, with a particular focus on the eXpress Data Path (XDP) technology in the Linux kernel. Karlstad University karlstad-university Verifying constant-time cryptographic algorithm implementations The aim of this project is to verify the timing side-channel resistance of cryptographic implementations. The project focuses on the constant time (and constant memory access) generic cryptographic implementations of selected cryptographic algorithms. T Europe Masaryk University brno masaryk-university Trusted Computing Ecosystem The project aims to study the TPM ecosystem as currently exists in deployed devices and software applications using it, establish the types of chips and their properties one can encounter, investigate the state of patching of known vulnerabilities like ROCA against Infineon’s TPM (CVE-2017-15361) or TPMFail against Intel’s fTPM (CVE-2019-11090) and STM’s TPM (CVE-2019-16863) and analyze a reliability of stored integrity measurements (PCRs) for remote attestation and disk encryption uses. Europe Masaryk University brno masaryk-university Accelerating Microarchitectural Security Research We are working on processes and tooling to lower the barrier to entry into the field and accelerate attack research and mitigation across academia and industry. Europe Graz University of Technology brno tu-graz Authentication in public open-source repositories This project focuses on user authentication in public repositories containing open-source projects, which are then used by commercial companies (e.g. Red Hat) as a source for their internally maintained repositories. Europe Masaryk University brno masaryk-university Hybrid Cloud Caching A fundamental goal of the Hybrid Cloud Cache project is to allow simplified integration into existing data lakes, to enable caching to be transparently introduced into hybrid cloud computation, to support efficient caching of objects widely shared across clusters deployed by different organizations, and to avoid the complexity of managing a separate caching service on top of the data lake North America Boston University, Northeastern University greater-boston boston-university northeastern-university Volume Storage Over Object Storage This project creates a hybrid storage system composed of a high-speed local device (e.g. Optane) to store short term data, along with a write-once object store (e.g, Ceph RGW) to store data blocks permanently. North America Boston University, Northeastern University greater-boston boston-university northeastern-university OpenInfra Labs OpenInfra Labs is an OpenStack Foundation project connecting open source projects to production to advance open source infrastructure. The project … Boston University, Northeastern University, UMass Amherst boston-university northeastern-university umass-amherst Elastic Secure Infrastructure This project encompasses work in several areas to design, build and evaluate secure bare-metal elastic infrastructure for data centers. North America Boston University greater-boston boston-university Open Cloud Testbed The Open Cloud Testbed project will build and support a testbed for research and experimentation into new cloud platforms – the underlying software which provides cloud services to applications. Testbeds such as OCT are critical for enabling research into new cloud technologies – research that requires experiments which potentially change the operation of the cloud itself. North America Boston University, Northeastern University, UMass Amherst greater-boston boston-university northeastern-university umass-amherst Kernel Techniques to Optimize Memory Bandwidth with Predictable Latency Recent processors have started introducing the first mechanism to monitor and control memory bandwidth. Can we use these mechanisms to enable machines to be fully used while ensuring that primary workloads have deterministic performance? This project presents early results from using Intel’s Resource Director Technology and some insight into this new hardware support. The project also examines an algorithm using these tools to provide deterministic performance on different workloads. North America Boston University greater-boston boston-university Unikernel Linux This project aims to turn the Linux kernel into a unikernel with the following characteristics: 1) are easily compiled for any application, 2) use battle-tested, production Linux and glibc code, 3) allow the entire upstream Linux developer community to maintain and develop the code, and 4) provide applications normally running vanilla Linux to benefit from unikernel performance and security advantages. North America Boston University greater-boston boston-university Perun: Lightweight Performance Version System Perun is an open source light-weight Performance Version System, which works as a wrapper over existing Version Control Systems and in parallel manages performance profiles corresponding to different versions of projects. Moreover, it offers a tool suite suitable for automation of the performance regression test runs, postprocessing of existing profiles or effective interpretation of the results. Europe Brno University of Technology brno brno-university-of-technology DiffKemp: Automatic analysis of semantic differences in kernel options The project aims at creating a tool for automatic analysis of differences in the code between versions of the Linux kernel. The goal is to determine whether the semantics (the effect) of some kernel option, function, or parameter, changed between two kernel versions Europe Brno University of Technology brno brno-university-of-technology Vega Project The Vega Project team at Red Hat came up with an idea to harness the power of Kubernetes to provide the next-generation open-source tool for high-performance computing. The project is way past the design phase, and the team is already working on the proof-of-concept implementation using Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. Europe Masaryk University brno masaryk-university PatrIoT: Quality Assurance System for Internet of Things Technology The main goal is to design, implement and verify a framework for quality assurance of products based on the Internet of Things concept. The aim of the framework is to help individual IoT projects to establish an efficient testing and verification strategy of the infrastructure. The proposed framework is based on a model of the IoT infrastructure, composed of methodological part, driven by university team, and a technical part, mainly worked on by Red Hat engineers. Europe Czech Technical University brno czech-technical-university Fuzzing Device Emulation in QEMU Hypervisors—the software that allows a computer to simulate multiple virtual computers—form the backbone of cloud computing. Because they are both ubiquitous and essential, they are security-critical applications that make attractive targets for potential attackers. North America Boston University greater-boston boston-university Automatic Configuration of Complex Hardware In this project, we pursue three goals towards this understanding: 1) identify, via a set of microbenchmarks, application characteristics that will illuminate mappings between hardware register values and their corresponding microbenchmark performance impact, 2) use these mappings to frame NIC configuration as a set of learning problems such that an automated system can recommend hardware settings corresponding to each network application, and 3) introduce either new dynamic or application instrumented policy into the device driver in order to better attune dynamic hardware configuration to application runtime behavior. North America Boston University greater-boston boston-university Avocado Project The goal of the Avocado project, as a generic test automation framework, is to provide a solid foundation for software projects to build their testing needs on. With Avocado, common testing problems are solved at the framework level, and developers can spend more of their time writing tests that, by default, will adhere to best practices. Europe Czech Technical University, Karlstad University brno czech-technical-university karlstad-university Performance Management for Serverless Computing Serverless computing provides developers the freedom to build and deploy applications without worrying about infrastructure. Resources (memory, cpu, location) specified … North America Boston University greater-boston boston-university