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# Research with OpenDC

On this page we list publications related to OpenDC or publications that have used OpenDC in their work.

## Interested in working with us?

If you are a new student and are interested in doing a project (e.g., bachelor thesis, master thesis) on OpenDC with us,
please visit [AtLarge Research website](https://www.atlarge-research.com/new_students.html) for more information.
For a sneak peek of the kind of work we do, have a look at the material listed below.


## Publications about OpenDC

1. [OpenDC 2.0: Convenient Modeling and Simulation of Emerging Technologies in Cloud Datacenters](https://atlarge-research.com/pdfs/ccgrid21-opendc-paper.pdf)  
   **CCGrid 2021**  
   Fabian Mastenbroek, Georgios Andreadis, Soufiane Jounaid, Wenchen Lai, Jacob Burley, Jaro Bosch, Erwin van Eyk,
   Laurens Versluis, Vincent van Beek, Alexandru Iosup
2. [The OpenDC vision: Towards collaborative datacenter simulation and exploration for everybody](https://atlarge-research.com/pdfs/opendc-vision17ispdc_cr.pdf)  
   **ISPDC 2017 (invited paper)**  
   Alexandru Iosup, Georgios Andreadis, Vincent van Beek, Matthijs Bijman, Erwin van Eyk, Mihai Neacsu, Leon Overweel,
   Sacheendra Talluri, Laurens Versluis, Maaike Visser.

## Publications using OpenDC

1. [Capelin: Data-Driven Compute Capacity Procurement for Cloud Datacenters Using Portfolios of Scenarios](https://www.computer.org/csdl/journal/td/2022/01/09444213/1tYo2a8BeWA)  
   **IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Jan. 2022**  
   Georgios Andreadis, Fabian Mastenbroek, Vincent van Beek, Alexandru Iosup
2. [A Reference Architecture for Datacenter Scheduling](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1808.04224)   
   **International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis 2018 (SC18)**   
   Georgios Andreadis, Laurens Versluis, Fabian Mastenbroek, Alexandru Iosup

## Students using OpenDC
There have been also multiple students projects that have used OpenDC:

1. [Radice: Data-driven Risk Analysis of Sustainable Cloud Infrastructure using Simulation](https://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object/uuid:00afeb36-724d-4edf-adc7-67ce991c7d12)  
   **Master Thesis, 2022**  
   Fabian Mastenbroek
2. [How Can Datacenters Join the Smart Grid to Address the Climate Crisis?](https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.01776)  
   **Bachelor Thesis, 2021**  
   Hongyu He
3. [Capelin: Fast Data-Driven Capacity Planning for Cloud Datacenters](https://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object/uuid:d6d50861-86a3-4dd3-a13f-42d84db7af66?collection=education)  
   **Master Thesis, 2020**  
   Georgios Andreadis
4. [Modeling and Simulation of the Google TensorFlow Ecosystem](https://atlarge-research.com/pdfs/lai2020thesis.pdf)  
   **Master Thesis, 2020**  
   Wenchen Lai
5. [OpenDC Serverless: Design, Implementation and Evaluation of a FaaS Platform Simulator](https://zenodo.org/record/4046675)  
   **Bachelor Thesis, 2020**  
   Soufiane Jounaid
6. [LEGO, but with Servers: Creating the Building Blocks to Design and Simulate Datacenters](https://atlarge-research.com/pdfs/BSc-Thesis-JACOB_BURLEY_FINAL.pdf)  
   **Bachelor Thesis, 2020**  
   Jacob Burley
7. [A Trace-Based Validation Study of OpenDC](https://atlarge-research.com/pdfs/2020-12-02_bsc_thesis_jaro_final.pdf)  
   **Bachelor Thesis, 2020**  
   Jaro Bosch
8. [A Systematic Design Space Exploration of Datacenter Schedulers](https://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object/uuid%3A20478016-cc7d-4c87-aa12-25b46f511277?collection=education)  
   **Bachelor Thesis, 2019**  
   Fabian Mastenbroek