SC4RC 2026

from Monday, May 4, 2026 (2:00 PM) to Friday, May 8, 2026 (6:00 PM)
CERN (500/1-001)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
May 4, 2026
May 5, 2026
May 6, 2026
May 7, 2026
May 8, 2026
AM
9:00 AM Faster, Greener, Precise Enough: Challenges and Directions in GPU Auto-Tuning - Ben van Werkhoven (Leiden University)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
9:45 AM A quick overview of the physical and social science of the planetary crisis - Julia Steinberger (University of Lausanne)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
10:30 AM Responses & discussion   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
11:00 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:30 AM
Contributed Talks (until 12:30 PM) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
11:30 AM Estimating the environmental impact of computing for a future accelerator facility - Dr Hannah Wakeling (John Adams Institute, University of Oxford)  
11:55 AM Integrating sustainability in the design of the Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope’s data processing and storage - Laurane Fréour (University of Vienna)  
12:20 PM Discussion  
11:30 AM
Contributed Talks (until 1:10 PM) (40/S2-D01 - Salle Dirac)
11:30 AM Understanding and Evaluating DRAM's Operational and Embodied Emissions - Mr Aditya Manglik  
11:55 AM Mitigate. Innovate. Sustain. - Wilco Burggraaf  
12:20 PM Reducing machine learning model emissions by integrating physics knowledge - Daisy Bradley (University of Sheffield)  
12:45 PM Sustainability-Aware Workload Shifting Beyond Carbon Intensity - Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann (Green Coding Solutions, University of Potsdam)  
9:00 AM Welcome & overview of the day   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
9:15 AM
Contributed Talks (until 10:30 AM) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
9:15 AM Green Research Software Engineering: A new role to Embed Sustainability in Research Software - Dr Kirsty Pringle (University of Edinburgh / Software Sustainability Institute)  
9:40 AM Building Communities in Green Computing - Anica Araneta (University of Cambridge)  
10:05 AM Integrating environmental sustainability into bioinformatics training and its delivery - Dr Flaminia Zane (EMBL-EBI)  
9:15 AM
Contributed Talks (until 10:30 AM) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
9:15 AM Towards a Federated Accounting Framework for Sustainable Research Computing: A Landscape Review of the UK's Digital Research Infrastructure - Deniza Chekrygina  
9:40 AM Life cycle assessment of the LHCb data centres : Overall impacts & Cooling systems comparison - Roman Dandoy (Universite de Liege (BE))  
10:05 AM What does that really tell us? Interpreting numbers in sustainability reports - Romain Jacob (ETH Zurich)  
10:30 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM
Contributed Talks (until 11:50 AM) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
11:00 AM UKRI's approach to Sustainable Digital Research Infrastructure - Dr Emily Wallis (United Kingdom Research and Innovation)  
11:25 AM Green DiSC: open-access community-driven Digital Sustainability Certification scheme - Loic Lannelongue (University of Cambridge)  
11:00 AM
Contributed Talks (until 12:30 PM) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
11:00 AM An environmental assessment of computing services in higher education [Online] - Tobias Fitschen (The University of Manchester (GB)) Caterina Doglioni (The University of Manchester (GB))  
11:25 AM Carbon Accounting for UK Research Computing: proof of concept & beyond. - Alex Owen (University of London (GB))  
11:50 AM How accurate are current tools and models for estimating software energy consumption? [Online] - Andreas Brunnert (Munich University of Applied Sciences HM)  
12:15 PM Discussion   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
11:50 AM
Interactive Session (until 12:30 PM) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
11:50 AM IT in your research – what impacts? - Julia Paolini (EPFL) Manuel Cubero-Castan (EPFL, VPS)  
9:00 AM On the Challenges in Assessing the Sustainability of AI [Online] - Raghavendra Selvan (University of Copenhagen)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
9:45 AM Responses & discussion   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
10:15 AM
Poster Lightning Talks - Jyoti Bhogal Sadie Bartholomew Hannah Scott (Imperial College London) (until 10:30 AM)
10:15 AM Lightning Talks - Ana Catarina Gouveia Braz (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) Jyoti Bhogal Sadie Bartholomew Hannah Scott (Imperial College London)  
10:30 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:00 AM Modelling Scenarios for Carbon-aware Geographic Load Shifting of Compute Workloads [Online] - Wim Vanderbauwhede (University of Glasgow)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
11:45 AM
Contributed Talks (until 1:25 PM) (40/S2-C01 - Salle Marie Sklodowska-Curie)
11:45 AM An Energy-Efficient Data Centre with Heat recovery at Queen Mary University of London [Online] - Dr Sudha Ahuja (Queen Mary University of London)  
12:10 PM Wattnet: High-Resolution Carbon and Water Intensity Modelling to Enable Impact-Aware Research Computing. - JAIME IGLESIAS BLANCO (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)) Mr Jaime Iglesias Blanco (CSIC)  
12:35 PM Adaptive Infrastructure and Efficiency Strategies at a GridKa WLCG Tier-1 Center - Lars Sowa (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))  
1:00 PM Discussion  
11:45 AM
Contributed Talks (until 1:25 PM) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
11:45 AM GreenMetaData: Standardising Environmental Impact Reporting for Computational Research [Online] - Jyoti Bhogal  
12:10 PM The One Token Model: A Multi-Layer Framework for the Granular Estimation of AI Inference Energy - Mr Mathieu Francois (Co-Founder & CEO, Antarctica)  
12:35 PM Towards a better understanding of environmental impacts of IT : evaluation of carbon emissions generated by organizations’ IT services - Julia Paolini (EPFL)  
1:00 PM Using co-design to improve computing carbon calculators - Dr Christina Bremer (University of Cambridge)  
9:00 AM The Political Economy of Compute: Provocations and Pathways - Jo Walton (University of Sussex)   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
9:45 AM Responses & discussion   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
10:15 AM --- Coffee break ---
10:45 AM
Interactive Session (until 11:30 AM) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
10:45 AM Your planet needs you! Scoping a community of Sustainable Computing Ambassadors. - Loïc Lannelongue (University of Cambridge) Kirsty Pringle   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
11:30 AM Prizes   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
11:45 AM Summary & close   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
PM
2:00 PM
Welcome & Housekeeping - Rakhi Mahbubani (Rudjer Boskovic Institute (HR)) Loic Lannelongue (University of Cambridge) Markus Schulz (CERN) Kristina Gunne (CERN) (until 2:30 PM)
2:00 PM Welcome to SC4RC - Loic Lannelongue (University of Cambridge) Rakhi Mahbubani (Rudjer Boskovic Institute (HR))  
2:15 PM Welcome to CERN - Simone Campana (CERN)  
2:25 PM Logistics - Markus Schulz (CERN)  
2:30 PM
Discipline Summaries (until 4:00 PM) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
2:30 PM Scientific Computing Across Disciplines: A Student-Driven Evaluation of Institutional Computing Footprints and External Resource Usage - Jeroen Dobbelaere (Institute of Science and Technology Austria)  
2:50 PM Green computing in neuroimaging research: Identifying strategies to reduce energy consumption, and training end users through roving workshops - Dr Nicholas Souter (University of Sussex)  
3:10 PM High Energy Physics, LHC and Computing for LHC [Online] - Caterina Doglioni (University of Manchester, UK) Caterina Doglioni (The University of Manchester (GB))  
3:30 PM Balancing accuracy and computational cost in computational chemistry - Jelle Vekeman (University of Antwerp)  
3:50 PM Discussion  
4:00 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:30 PM
Interactive Session (until 5:15 PM) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
4:30 PM Power Measurement Techniques for Research Computing - Dr Jack Coker (University of Cambridge)  
4:30 PM
Interactive Session (until 5:15 PM)
4:30 PM GreenDIGIT Tools for Environmental Sustainability in Digital Research Infrastructures: Assessment Methodology and Metrics Publication System - Iida Lehto (Mandat International) Damla Rowlandson Shashikant Ilager (University of Amsterdam)  
5:15 PM
Dashboard Demos (until 6:00 PM) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
5:15 PM Accelerating Science, Decelerating Carbon: Sustainable Computing at CERN - Amine Lahouel (CERN) Laura Eve Sarah Llinares   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
5:15 PM Energy & Emissions Monitoring of Compute Workloads Using CEEMS [Online] - Dr Mahendra PAIPURI (CNRS)   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
5:15 PM The Green Algorithms Dashboard: Bringing Carbon Visibility to Research Computing - Navirah Kamal (University of Cambridge)   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
6:00 PM
Social (until 8:00 PM) (61/1-201 - Pas perdus - Not a meeting room -)
12:30 PM
Contributed Talks (until 1:10 PM) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
12:30 PM Engineering a Scalable, FAIR Data Infrastructure for Resource-Efficient Research - Irufan Ahmed (Imperial College London)  
12:55 PM Discussion  
1:10 PM --- Lunch break ---
2:30 PM Sustainable Computing in an Era of Rising Hardware Costs and Slowing Per-Core Progress - Ian Fisk (Simons Foundation)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
3:15 PM Software Engineering and Sustainability: Experience Cultivating Better Systems - Michael Philip Sparks (The University of Manchester (GB))   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
4:00 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:30 PM
Poster Lightning Talks (until 5:15 PM) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
4:30 PM Lightning Talks - August Ning (EPFL) Yishak Tadele Nigatu (University of Trento) Dr Xavier Eric Ouvrard (EPFL EcoCloud) Vladimir Bahyl (CERN) Tia Haddad (Kingston University London) Sadie Bartholomew Rubén Rodríguez Álvarez (EPFL) Pascal Emmenegger Nicholas Souter (University of Sussex) Michael Philip Sparks (The University of Manchester (GB)) Maximilian Horzela (Georg August Universitaet Goettingen (DE)) Matteo Zanotto Matteo Bunino (CERN) Laura Eve Sarah Llinares Kirsty Pringle Jyoti Bhogal Jeroen Dobbelaere (Institute of Science and Technology Austria) JAIME IGLESIAS BLANCO (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)) Jaime Iglesias Blanco (CSIC) Hannah Scott (Imperial College London) Georgios Sarantakos Dr Colin C. Venter (University of Huddersfield (GB)) Christophe Farges Dr Christina Bremer (University of Cambridge) Ana Catarina Gouveia Braz (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) Amine Lahouel (CERN) Adrian CIOCAN (MAIF, France, La Rochelle University, France)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
5:15 PM
Poster session (until 6:30 PM) (500/1-201 - Mezzanine)
5:15 PM Developing a sustainable institutional research computing culture - Hannah Scott (Imperial College London) Jeremy Cohen (Imperial College London)  
5:30 PM A Comprehensive Data Analysis of Three IBM POWER9 Cooling Systems in the ExaDigit Framework [Online] - Mr Yishak Tadele Nigatu (University of Trento)  
5:30 PM Applied AI for Power Management and Predictive Maintenance in the LHCb HLT2 Data Centre - Matteo Bunino (CERN)  
5:30 PM CompilePython.com: Capturing Community Knowledge on Compiling Python for Real-World Software - Michael Philip Sparks (The University of Manchester (GB))  
5:30 PM Cutting Carbon in SKA Science Computing though Lifecycle Management, Load Shaping, and Accelerators - Dr Ruben Rodriguez Alvarez (EPFL Embedded Systems Lab) Dr Miguel PEÓN-QUIRÓS (EcoCloud EPFL) Dr Denisa-Andreea Constantinescu (EPFL Embedded Systems Lab)  
5:30 PM Datacenters and Artificial Intelligence: Piloting the Energy Performance of AI Usages as a Strategic CSR Challenge [Online] - Dr Angela CIOCAN (CERADE, ESAIP, Angers, France, L3i, La Rochelle University, France) Prof. Vincent COURBOULAY (L3i, La Rochelle University, France) Dr Adrian CIOCAN (MAIF, France, La Rochelle University, France)  
5:30 PM EcoCloud: An Experimental Research Facility for Sustainable Computing and Computing for Sustainability - Xavier Eric Ouvrard (EPFL EcoCloud)  
5:30 PM Energy impact of programming languages and their frameworks on business/web applications - Christophe Farges  
5:30 PM Enhancing Sustainable Research: A holistic Approach to Sustainable Computing (Poster) - Dr Xavier Eric Ouvrard (EPFL EcoCloud)  
5:30 PM Estimating the Embodied Impacts of the Internet: Promise and Deception - Pascal Emmenegger  
5:30 PM Green computing in neuroimaging research - Nicholas Souter (University of Sussex)  
5:30 PM Green RSE - Kirsty Pringle  
5:30 PM GreenPhysECS: Exploring the Practical Utility of the Entity-Component-System Model for Early-Career Researchers Building Energy-Aware Parallel Research Software - Michael Philip Sparks (The University of Manchester (GB))  
5:30 PM How effective are carbon reporting tools in encouraging sustainable behaviours? Introducing E-SCOUT, a large-scale multi-centre trial - Dr Christina Bremer (University of Cambridge)  
5:30 PM Implementation of background jobs for recovering CPU usage during the draining of worker nodes - Maximilian Horzela (Georg August Universitaet Goettingen (DE)) Sebastian Wozniewski (Georg August Universitaet Goettingen (DE))  
5:30 PM Operationalising Sustainable Software Engineering (SSE) Principles Through Runtime Architectural Tactic Selection in Self-Adaptive Microservices [Online] - Tia Haddad (Kingston University London)  
5:30 PM PUE is broken, what is next? - Xavier Eric Ouvrard Dr August Ning (EPFL) Xavier Eric Ouvrard (EPFL EcoCloud)  
5:30 PM Scaling up CATS, The Climate Aware Task Scheduler, for cluster computing and international reach [Online] - Ms Sadie Bartholomew (National Centre for Atmospheric Science and University of Reading)  
5:30 PM Scientific Computing Across Disciplines: A Student-Driven Evaluation of Institutional Computing Footprints and External Resource Usage - Jeroen Dobbelaere (Institute of Science and Technology Austria)  
5:30 PM Sustainable Data Centre Research: The RF2.0 Project at DESY - Dr Dwayne Spiteri (DESY)  
5:30 PM TBD - Jyoti Bhogal  
5:30 PM TBD - Amine Lahouel (CERN)  
5:30 PM The Green Frontier of Big Data: Environmental Efficiency of Tape Storage at CERN - Vladimir Bahyl (CERN)  
5:30 PM Towards Sustainable and Accountable Hybrid Cloud Computing via Carbon Intensity Forecasting - Matteo Zanotto (University of Trento)  
5:30 PM UrbanTwin: Digital Twins at the Service of a Sustainable Future through Integrated Urban Systems - Dr Denisa-Andreea Constantinescu (EPFL Embedded Systems Lab) Dr Catarina G. Braz (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)  
5:30 PM Wattnet: High-Resolution Carbon and Water Intensity Modelling to Enable Impact-Aware Research Computing. - Jaime Iglesias Blanco (CSIC) JAIME IGLESIAS BLANCO (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC))  
12:30 PM --- Lunch break - meet outside Council Chamber ---
2:00 PM
Interactive Session (until 2:45 PM) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
2:00 PM What’s Stopping Emissions Monitoring Across Compute Services? - Jessica Huntley (STFC)   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
2:00 PM
Writing Session (until 3:30 PM)
2:45 PM
Interactive Session (until 3:30 PM) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
2:45 PM Beyond the Dashboard: What Should Research Computing Carbon Monitoring Actually Do? - Navirah Kamal (University of Cambridge)  
3:30 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:00 PM Developing a sustainable institutional research computing culture - Jeremy Cohen (Imperial College London)   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
4:45 PM Responses & discussion   (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
5:15 PM --- Cern tours - Guides will meet you outside Council Chamber ---
7:00 PM
Free Public Webinar [Online] - Jyoti Bhogal Kirsty Pringle Loic Lannelongue (University of Cambridge) Raghavendra Selvan (University of Copenhagen) (until 8:30 PM)
7:00 PM Free Public Webinar [Online]: Environmental Impacts of Big Computing - Loic Lannelongue (University of Cambridge)  
7:30 PM Panel Discussion with Jyoti Bhogal, Lauranne Fréour, Kirsty Pringle and Raghavendra Selvan [Online] - Raghavendra Selvan (University of Copenhagen) Laurane Fréour Kirsty Pringle Jyoti Bhogal  
1:25 PM --- Lunch break ---
2:45 PM
Contributed Talks (until 4:00 PM) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
2:45 PM Optimizing Energy Efficiency at the WLCG PIC Tier-1: From Predictive Job Scheduling to Real-Time CPU Control - Jose Flix Molina (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))  
3:10 PM SUSFECIT: Objectives and Concepts - Dr Dwayne Spiteri (DESY)  
3:35 PM Enhancing Sustainable Research: A holistic Approach to Sustainable Computing - Xavier Eric Ouvrard (EPFL EcoCloud) Georgios Sarantakos (EPFL)  
2:45 PM
Poster session (until 4:00 PM) (500/1-201 - Mezzanine)
4:00 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:30 PM Environmentally Sustainable HeAlth REsearch (SHARE) Considerations of ethics, justice, responsibility and reflexivity. - Gabby Samuel   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
1:00 PM --- Science Gateway tour ---