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22 December 2025
The CloudLab research group at the URV has been recognized as one of the 22 winners of the Aina Challenge thanks to PACAT (Platform for Conversational Agents with Aina Kit), a project aimed at creating personalized conversational agents from documents and web pages using advanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) techniques. The...
27 November 2025
The CLOUDLESS research project has held its final event at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), bringing together researchers, companies, and academic partners to present the results achieved after two years of work. The project focused on designing new cloud and edge computing architectures aimed at improving data processing efficiency...
17 February 2025
Around forty engineering students participated in the first Cloud Computing Hackathon organized by the URV and T-Systems through the URV–T-Systems Cloud Computing Chair. Working in teams for 24 consecutive hours, participants developed cloud-based solutions to address real-world challenges using territorial data and Amazon Web Services (AWS). The initiative promoted not...
24 May 2024
A citizen science project led by the CloudLab research group at the URV has identified the freight train responsible for disturbing the sleep of residents in the El Serrallo neighborhood of Tarragona. Through the Soundless project, researchers combined noise measurements with health data collected from smart bracelets to analyze the...
19 April 2024
We are glad to announce that our research paper, “Exploiting Inherent Elasticity of Serverless in Algorithms with Unbalanced and Irregular Workloads”, has been accepted and published in the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. In this article, we showcase the capability of serverless computing to provide exceptional cost-performance benefits for...
12 January 2024
Research, dissemination and, above all, training will be promoted, providing professionals and students with the tools to understand and apply cloud computing. Read the URV’s news for more information (in Spanish).
22 June 2023
The University Rovira i Virgili (URV) hosted the 29th edition of the Conference on Concurrency and Distributed Systems, organized by the CloudLab research group in collaboration with the Spanish Society of Concurrent and Distributed Computing. The event brought together researchers, academics, and industry professionals to present and discuss recent advances...
13 March 2023
A study led by the University Rovira i Virgili (URV) has shown that chronic noise pollution in the Serrallo, Tarragona 2, and Francolí neighborhoods in Tarragona has significant negative effects on residents’ health. The research, carried out through a citizen science project, measured environmental noise levels and correlated them with...
25 January 2023
Three are led by the CloudLab research group, coordinated by the researcher from the Department of Computer Engineering and Mathematics, Pedro García. Read the URV’s news for more information.
05 July 2022
Teams of English and German scientists are using this open-code tool, the result of the European Cloudbutton project. Read the URV’s news for more information.