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