About

The Distributed Systems Lab is located at the OST Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland.

We focus on applied research that combines cutting-edge technology, innovative design, and strong engineering across all aspects of distributed systems, including the latest AI tooling and decentralized systems such as blockchains. We value open communication between industry, institutions, start-ups, and students.

The DSL lab is striving to expand the frontier of innovation in this field by fostering productive discussion and collaboration, supplemented with ground-breaking applied scientific progress.

News

Challenge Task Winner Distributed Systems HS24

(17.12.2024) Congratulations 🎉 to the HS24 challenge task winner of the Distributed Systems lecture at the Ostschweizer Fachhochschule. In this semester, 14 groups participated in this challenge, with the requirement to design, build and implement a functional stablecoin with automatic rebalancing on a decentralized exchange. And the winning group is: Nico Fehr, Micha Harzbecker, Tom Stromer They created a stablecoin tied to Western Texas Intermediate crude oil prices, implemented on Arbitrum and utilizing Uniswap for decentralized exchange. Congratulations, very impressive work!

Challenge Task Winner Distributed Systems FS24

(03.06.2024) Congratulations 🎉 to the FS24 challenge task winner of the Distributed Systems lecture at the Ostschweizer Fachhochschule. In this semester, 22 groups participated in this challenge, with the requirement to design, build an implement, and scalable decentralized system. And the winning group is: Alice Glaus, Mischa Binder, and Nils-Robin Grob. with Co-Puzzle Web App, which is a collaborative puzzle using websockets, deployed interally at OST: https://dsys-puzzle.network.garden. For the load balancer they used Traefik, everything dockerized of course, for the frontend/backend they used React with next, and for the database, they used MongoDB. Congratulations, very impressive work!

Challenge Task Winner Blockchain HS23

(18.12.2023) Congratulations 🎉 to the HS23 challenge task winner of the Blockchain lecture at the Ostschweizer Fachhochschule. In this semester, 13 groups participated in this challenge. The winning group is: Manuel Metzler, Reto Furrer, and Sascha Häring (2nd time in a row!). Manuel, Reto, and Sascha implemented a dual deposit system that has a mutually assured destruction mechanism that discourages fraudulent activity from both buyers and sellers. For the backend they used Golang, in the frontend they used Rust that was compiled to WebAssembly. For the blockchain environment they used ICP where canisters (~smart contracts) were written in Motoko. Very impressive work!

Services and Partners

Working together with institutions, companies, and start-ups, we provide the following services. For further information, please contact me!

How to reach us

Address

Prof. Dr. Thomas Bocek
Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences
Oberseestrasse 10, CH-8640 Rapperswil, Switzerland

By Car

The nearest public car park is around ten minutes (walking distance) away. There is a local parking guidance system in place. There are only a few, paid parking spaces available close to the university with a maximum parking duration of 2 hours. The OST parking garage can only be used by OST members, from Monday to Friday, 6:00 to 17:00.

By Train

The Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences in Rapperswil is located next to the train station in Rapperswil. Rapperswil has a direct connection to Zurich with the S15, S5, and S7.

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