Computing in the era of climate change

Wednesday, December 8 at 16:30 GMT

Video from the panel session

Focus

The panel will cover the following sub-topics:

  • Data Centre/Energy Efficiency

  • Use of renewable energy sources at the point of computing/storage

  • Reuse/Repair & e-waste management

  • Current status and future prospects for use of computing in simulating, modelling, and developing responses to climate change topics

  • Minimizing and optimizing energy use to support computing and data science in both academia and industry settings

  • Balancing commercial cloud versus on-premises optimization to achieve energy efficiency

  • Reusing previous clusters and data center equipment to extend lifetimes

  • Long-term sustainability of data storage and computing infrastructure in general beyond energy use

Panelists

Karim Djemame, Professor, Leeds University, UK

Martin Bouchard, Co-founder & President, QScale, Canada

Sumit Puri, CEO and Co-founder, Liqid, US

Andreas Wierse, Managing Director, SICOS, / European Technology Platform for High-Performance Computing, Germany

Anne Stoner, Climate Center, Texas Tech University, US

Organisers

Alan Sill, Texas Tech. University, US

Ashiq Anjum, Leicester University, UK

Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK