LSR means Distributed Systems Laboratory and stands for Laboratoire de Systèmes Répartis. The LSR is part of the Institute for Core Computing Science, which belongs to the School for Computer and Communication Sciences of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), in Lausanne.

Our name used to be Operating Systems Laboratory (Laboratoire de Systèmes d'Exploitation, LSE) until July 2001. We were part of the Computer Science Department (Département d'Informatique, DI) until 1999.

The main activities of the LSR are research and teaching. Our research focuses on reliability and security in the context of distributed systems. The LSR teaches distributed systems, operating system principles, concurrent programming and object-oriented programming to undergraduate and graduate students.

If you are a student from abroad considering to spend a practical semester in our lab, please have a look at our list of student projects, in particular, the master thesis and semester projects, to get a first idea about the kind of work you would likely do.