Global warming and the destruction of ecosystems are increasingly on the rise, with last year being the first with 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels
[1]. In the future, it will very likely be continuing to manifest as a myriad of consequences from physical water availability to an increase in wildfires, according to the IPCC Climate change 2023 Synthesis report
[2]. Reflecting on those ongoing changes, there is an urgent need for the scientific and high performance community to embrace more efficient and sustainable computational practices.
With both Moore’s law and Dennard scaling becoming less relevant, innovation in high performance computing has mainly shifted toward three key areas over the years
[3]: hardware architectural design, software and algorithm innovation. In this workshop, we focus on the latest software innovation, practices and initiatives that help to drive high performance computing towards better sustainable and ethical environmental practices. From the moment a research project gets implemented on a high performance computing cluster to its paper publication, we show the chain of events that lead to more efficient computation. Finally, we demonstrate how focusing on the best software sustainability practices can help to improve scientific achievements in the long run.
References:[1] https://www.carbonbrief.org/state-of-the-climate-2024-will-be-first-year-above-1-5c-of-global-warming/[2] https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_SYR_SPM.pdf[3] Leiserson, C. E., Thompson, N. C., Emer, J. S., Kuszmaul, B. C., Lampson, B. W., Sanchez, D., & Schardl, T. B. (2020). There’s plenty of room at the Top: What will drive computer performance after Moore’s law?. Science, 368(6495), eaam9744.
