Description
Task T7.2 of EGI-ACE was formulated with the key intention of making EGI-ACE greener. In order to achieve this the task’s working group focused upon:
- Discovering existing good practice already being undertaken by the
project partners - Knowledge dissemination amongst partners(particularly in relation to
the existing good practice) - Measuring key metrics to illustrate progress relating to Green
computing over the lifetime the project
Activities undertaken with these aims in mind were:
- Survey
- Taskforce
- Signposting
- Webinars
The working group produced a report “D7.4 - Green Computing progress and improvements within EGI-ACE” which covered the activities, results of the activities and a number of key observations, conclusions and recommendations:
- There are pockets of good practice amongst the partners.
- Overall engagement amongst partners is low
- A multi-faceted approach, combining reward and compulsion alongside
enabling activities/policies is recommended to combat this. Broadly speaking this could be expressed as:- Build upon the current knowledge sharing activities
- Facilitate the adoption of green initiatives and practices
- Incentivise the adoption of green initiatives and practices
- De-incentivise non green activities and non adoption of green initiatives and practices
This poster highlights some of the observations, conclusions and recommendations along with the methods used to formulate them.
| Key Topic | Green computing |
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Primary authors
Paul Stokes
(Jisc)
Shaun de Witt
(UKAEA)
Catalin Condurache
(EGI.eu)
