Shaping the Digital Future of ErUM Research: Sustainability & Ethics

Session

Sustainability

29 Jul 2025, 09:30

Erholungs-Gesellschaft Aachen 1837

Conveners

Sustainability: Invited Talks

• There are no conveners in this block

Sustainability: Session 1 (Sustainable ErUM research centres of the future)

• There are no conveners in this block

Sustainability: Plenary Discussion

• Dwayne Spiteri (IT (IT Scientific Computing))

Sustainability: Invited Talk by Eoin Woods

• There are no conveners in this block

Presentation materials

Woods-SustainableComputingAtScale.July2025.pdf

15. Wolfang Gründinger: Tech for Future (remote)

29/07/2025, 09:30

Digitale Innovationen sind bereits heute erfolgreich im Einsatz für Energie- und Verkehrswende, Klimaschutz und nachhaltige Entwicklung. Aus dem Management der dezentralen, erneuerbaren Stromversorgung etwa sind digitale Technologien nicht mehr wegzudenken. Warum digitale Transformation und nachhaltige Entwicklung zusammengehören, das zeigt Wolfgang Gründinger in diesem Impulsvortrag.

29. Sustainability aspects in the planning of the Einstein Telescope

Achim Stahl (RWTH Aachen University)

29/07/2025, 10:00

16. From Data to Duty: A Simulation Framework for Sustainable Distributed Computing

Maximilian Maria Horzela (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)

29/07/2025, 11:00

As scientific experiments in basic research of universe & matter continue to generate vast volumes of data, the need for scalable, efficient, and sustainable computing becomes increasingly critical, not only to match the future requirements for data storage and processing but also to align with the responsibility imposed on the scientific community towards a more sustainable future.

This...

19. Advancing the Environmental Sustainability of Scientific Computing for ErUM

Markus Schumacher (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)

29/07/2025, 11:30

Scientific computing contributes significantly to the CO2 footprint created by research conducted in ErUM. In order to advance the environmental sustainability in this area the SUSFECIT (Sustainable Federated Compute Infrastructures) research network has been proposed with the goal to contribute to developing a strategy and interlinked software ecosystems to reduce CO2 footprint and to...

24. Potential Synergies between the Helmholtz Cluster for a Sustainable and Infrastructure-Compatible Hydrogen Economy and ErUM Research

Hans-Georg Steinrück

29/07/2025, 12:00

In 2020, the German Federal Government and the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia decided that coal firing for electricity generation will be phased out by 2030 to reduce CO2 emission. Coal mining regions like the Rhenish mining area are affected by this decision. Towards this end, the Helmholtz Cluster for a Sustainable and Infrastructure-Compatible Hydrogen Economy (HC-H2) was...

27. Responsible use of tools (tba)

Talk of Jan
Einsatz von Tools, pasend zur Fragestellung, Datenbasis, sehr wichtiger Punkt in der Forschung

26. Stingy Computing

Vijay Kartik (FS-SC (Scientific computing))

With ever-increasing data volumes pushing the climate footprint of computing at large-scale research facilities to record-high levels, we need to take a very critical look at our current software algorithms and drastically reduce the energy consumption of data analysis and storage solutions. The main questions to ask are - Is AI an unquestionably good idea for science? After an experiment, do...

18. Sustainability aspects in the planning of the Einstein Telescope: Prof. Achim Stahl