WLCG Environmental Sustainability Workshop

from Wednesday 11 December 2024 (12:00) to Friday 13 December 2024 (18:00)
CERN (31/3-004)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
11 Dec 2024
12 Dec 2024
13 Dec 2024
AM
08:00 --- Coffee & croissants ---
09:00
Environmental Sustainability: The Experiments - Simone Campana (CERN) (until 10:20)
09:00 Energy Efficient Computing with ALICE O2 - Stefano Piano (INFN (IT))  
09:20 ATLAS - Zach Marshall (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))  
09:40 CMS - Andrea Piccinelli (University of Notre Dame (US))  
10:00 LHCb - Henryk Giemza (National Centre for Nuclear Research (PL))  
10:20 --- Coffee ---
10:50
Environmental Sustainability: The Experiments - David Britton (University of Glasgow (GB)) (until 11:50)
10:50 Sustainability for Einstein Telescope Computing - Paul James Laycock (Universite de Geneve (CH))  
11:10 Aware Computing in ATLAS: Estimating Carbon Footprint for Workloads with PanDA - Fernando Harald Barreiro Megino (University of Texas at Arlington)  
11:30 Development and implementation of an environmentally friendly Workload Management System in DiracX - Henryk Giemza (National Centre for Nuclear Research (PL))  
11:50
Workloads and Metrics - Markus Schulz (CERN) (until 12:30)
11:50 The Role of the HEP Benchmark Suite in Measuring Performance to Support Sustainability in High-Energy Physics Computing - Domenico Giordano (CERN)  
12:10 Calorimetric simulation with quantum computers: the energy perspective - Wojtek Fedorko (TRIUMF)  
08:00 --- Coffee & croissants ---
09:00
WLCG: Ideas for a plan - Simone Campana (CERN) Markus Schulz (CERN) David Britton (University of Glasgow (GB)) (until 12:40)
09:00 Introduction to the discussion topics  
09:20 Discussion A  
10:40 --- Coffee ---
11:00 Discussion B  
12:00 Summary and Outlook - Zach Marshall (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US)) Simone Campana (CERN) Mattias Wadenstein (University of Umeå (SE)) Markus Schulz (CERN) Jonas Rademacker (University of Bristol (GB)) James Letts (Univ. of California San Diego (US)) David Britton (University of Glasgow (GB)) Alessandro Di Girolamo (CERN)  
PM
13:00 --- Welcome Coffee ---
13:30 Introduction to the Workshop, Structure and Goals - Simone Campana (CERN) David Britton (University of Glasgow (GB))  
13:45
Infrastructure - Markus Schulz (CERN) (until 15:25)
13:45 The 3 most important factors in datacenter planning: Location, location, location - Rodney Walker (Ludwig Maximilians Universitat (DE))  
14:05 Sustainability Efforts at the KIT Scientific Computing Center - Andreas Petzold (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))  
14:25 Estimating the environmental cost of HEP software and computing hardware at the University of Manchester - Tobias Fitschen (The University of Manchester (GB))  
14:45 Holistic cost analysis of running a computing center - Zhangqier Wang (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
15:05 Sustainable computing with RF2.0 at DESY - Dr Dwayne Spiteri (DESY)  
15:25 --- Coffee break ---
15:55
Infrastructure - Simone Campana (CERN) (until 17:00)
15:55 Approach to Sustainability at the CERN T0 and CERN DC - Markus Schulz (CERN)  
16:15 Natural job drainage and power reduction in PIC Tier-1 using HTCondor - Jose Flix Molina (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))  
16:35 Advancing a more energy-efficient and sustainable SDCC at BNL - Imran Latif (Brookhaven National Laboratory)  
17:00
Projects and Reports - David Britton (University of Glasgow (GB)) (until 18:00)
17:00 Environmental Sustainability in Digital Research Infrastructures - the GreenDIGIT project - Catalin Condurache (EGI Foundation)  
17:20 Summary of the LOCO2024 Workshop on Low Carbon Computing - Wim Vanderbauwhede (University of Glasgow)  
17:40 Raising awareness on IT’s Environmental Impact: Experiences from a Collaborative Workshop - Varsha Bhat Maria Alandes Pradillo (CERN)  
12:30 --- Lunch ---
13:30
Workloads and Metrics - Simone Campana (CERN) (until 14:50)
13:30 Energy Sustainability in Artificial Intelligence - Dr Sofia Vallecorsa (CERN)  
13:50 FlashSim at CMS: performance and resources of deep learning based simulation for HEP - Francesco Vaselli (Scuola Normale Superiore & INFN Pisa (IT))  
14:10 Accelerating Monte-Carlo event generation on CPUs and GPUs - Daniele Massaro (CERN)  
14:30 Power efficiency gains from GPU optimised workloads with Geant4 based detector simulations - Dr Albert Gyorgy Borbely (University of Glasgow (GB))  
14:50
Hardware and Fabrics - Markus Schulz (CERN) (until 16:40)
14:50 Carbon costs of storage & carbon reporting: a UK perspective. - Richard Alexander Owen Samuel Cadellin Skipsey  
15:15 Environmental efficiency of tape storage at CERN - Vladimir Bahyl (CERN)  
15:35 Watt Counts: ARM Compute & Energy Accounting in the WLCG - Emanuele Simili  
15:50 --- Coffee ---
16:20 Life Cycle Analysis of Compute Nodes - Mattias Wadenstein (University of Umeå (SE))