Sustainable Supercomputing Workshop

 Welcome to the ISC 2026 Sustainable Supercomputing workshop! 

 Agenda

Friday 26th June : 

2.00pm-2.30pm : Sustainable Supercomputing: An Inconvenient Necessity

Wu Feng, Ph.D., is a Professor of Computer Science at Virginia Tech (VT), where he directs the Synergy Lab, the Synergistic Environments for Experimental Computing (SEEC) Center, and the NSF Center for Space, High-performance, and Resilient Computing (SHREC). In addition, he holds appointments in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Health Sciences, and Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics. His research interests sit at the synergistic intersection of parallel and distributed architecture, systems software, middleware, tools, algorithms, and applications, particularly with respect to biocomputing, health, and scientific computing. A few highlights of his work include the world’s first green supercomputer in Green Destiny (2002), The Green500 List (2006), The Green Computing Book (2014), a worldwide Microsoft Cloud commercial based on his high-performance biocomputing (2015-2016), and an SC22 Test-of-Time Award for “A Power-Aware Run-Time System for High-Performance Computing” (2022). Dr. Feng is an ACM Distinguished Member and IEEE Senior Member and received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and M.S. and B.S. in Computer Engineering & Music (Honors) from Penn State University

2.30pm-2.50pm : Benchmarking emissions efficiency of software on UK National HPC facilities

Andy Turner is a senior RSE at EPCC at the University of Edinburgh. His current work is focussed on supporting researchers to get the most out of UK national HPC resources such as the ARCHER2 and DiRAC services. For the past few years, he has been working to improve the understanding and quantification of emissions associated with HPC system use and how these can be reduced.

2.50pm-3.10pm : Toward Sustainable AI: Energy-Aware Fine-Tuning Strategies for LLMs

Daniel Armas Ramírez is a data science student at Instituto Politécnico Nacional, specializing in high-performance computing and artificial intelligence. His work focuses on Green Computing, specifically exploring ways to reduce the energy footprint of deploying AI models across diverse hardware environments. Daniel applies these sustainable computing solutions to solve real-world problems and address environmental challenges through technology. Previously, as a Software Engineer Intern at Microsoft, he demonstrated his capabilities by developing tools to monitor and prevent system failures in supercomputing infrastructure

3.10pm-3.30pm : Facilitating Flexible Scheduling With Flexible Workloads

Christian Wassermann is a PhD candidate in the HPC group at the IT Center of RWTH Aachen University. Since 2016, he has been actively involved in this research group while pursuing his Bachelor's degree in Scientific Programming and his Master's degree in Computer Science. Having worked on different HPC topics, including performance analysis and modeling of parallel applications, his current research focuses on the energy- and carbon-aware optimization of HPC center operations. To enable these research efforts, he operates the cluster performance and energy monitoring system of the RWTH compute cluster and its associated building infrastructure. Since 2025, he is one of the acting co-leads of the Power Measurement Team of the Energy Efficiency HPC Working Group (EE HPC WG) that maintains and develops the measurement methodology for the Green500 list.

3.30pm-4.00pm : Coffee break

4.00pm-4.30pm : Invited keynote : Scoping environmental sustainability in High-Performance Computing 

Sudhir Rama Murthy is a sustainable operations researcher at Imperial College London. Based at the Dyson School of Design Engineering, he works on business strategies for environmental sustainability in High-Performance Computing. He has a PhD in Engineering from Cambridge where he specialised in sustainable manufacturing. He was a Manmohan Singh Scholar of St John’s College, Cambridge, for his doctoral studies. He was a Research Fellow at Saïd Business School, Oxford, leading research on responsible business management. He has been a Council Fellow of the World Economic Forum. He has also conducted postdoctoral research at Cambridge on manufacturing management for the post-global economy. He has a broad interest in how ongoing political shifts and technological shifts are shaping avenues for responsible business. 

4.30pm-4.50pm : Exploring sustainable operation of GPUs :
Adrian Jackson is the Director of Research and a Senior Research Fellow at the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC). His research focuses on high-performance computing (HPC), encompassing data and storage solutions, memory technologies, and application optimisation to ensure the efficient use of large-scale computing systems. Throughout his career, Adrian has contributed to various application domains, including computational fluid dynamics, plasma physics, nuclear fusion, molecular dynamics, and discrete element modelling. Currently he is interested in exploring sustainability for HPC, including energy efficient computing approaches.

4.50pm-5.10pm : Multidimensiona Metrics for Sustainable Multiscale Hybrid Supercomuting

Carlos J. Barrios H. PhD. Carlos Jaime Barrios Hernández is a Full Professor at the Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS) in Bucaramanga Colombia, and Director of the SC3UIS High Performance Computing Center in the same university. A Senior Member of the ACM and IEEE, he chairs the SCALAC consortium (Advanced Computing system for Latin America and the Caribbean) and focuses his research on High Performance Computing and Advanced Computing systems, the computing continuum, heterogeneous architectures, and the sustainability of large-scale systems. He holds a PhD from Université Nice-Sophia Antipolis and recently received his HDR from INSA Lyon in 2025. Currently, he serves as a Guest Senior Researcher at the INSA Lyon CITI Laboratory and the LIG/Inria center in Grenoble, France.

5.10pm-6.00pm : Panel discussion : All speakers