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The rapidly growing energy demand of large-scale scientific computing infrastructures could significantly impact the environmental footprint of future experiments. For the Einstein Telescope (ET), sustainability is therefore a key design criterion from an early stage. The SCOPE project (Sustainable Computing Prototype for the Einstein Telescope) addresses this challenge by developing and operating a prototype computing center designed for tight integration with renewable energy systems.
The central goal of SCOPE is to explore an integrated architecture for sustainable scientific computing. Renewable energy production and storage are jointly designed together with the computing infrastructure as a single coherent system. The prototype will be designed for operation with a fully renewable energy supply and will explicitly account for the inherent variability of renewable energy sources. Rather than developing new computing paradigms, SCOPE builds on energy-aware workload management concepts currently being developed in other projects to reduce the required energy storage capacity.
This talk presents the motivation, architectural design, and key goals of the SCOPE prototype. The project serves as a practical testbed for sustainable computing infrastructures and aims to provide guidance for the design of future computing facilities for large-scale scientific experiments such as the Einstein Telescope.