Technical and Operational Challenges Challenges - Net Zero DRI Project Partners Webinar 1
Channel: Centre for Environmental Data Analysis
Date: 2023-02-14

The UKRI Net Zero Digital Research Infrastructure Scoping Project (https://net-zero-dri.ceda.ac.uk/) team hosted two webinars to share the outcomes of work undertaken by our project partners (https://net-zero-dri.ceda.ac.uk/project-activities/). These pieces of work have been undertaken by over 40 researchers from 20 different institutions over the last ~6 months. Both webinars provided an opportunity for the wider research community to engage with and discuss the project outcomes.

This webinar will cover technical and operational challenges such as: hardware procurement, design and architecture of infrastructure, cloud platforms, consolidation, power management and efficiency, end-of-life, and carbon capture and offsetting. 

Speakers presented from the following project partners:  
- CarbonQuanDRI: developing a measurement trace capturing various sustainability aspects in the operation of a DRI service, including dependencies between different indicators (e.g. data flow, power consumption, and carbon intensity) (https://net-zero-dri.ceda.ac.uk/cquandri/)
- IRISCAST: auditing energy usage of the IRIS DRI via snap-hot data capture  (https://net-zero-dri.ceda.ac.uk/iriscast/)
- Energetic: exploring energy-to-solution consumption in High Performance Computing (HPC) (https://net-zero-dri.ceda.ac.uk/energetic/)
- HPC-Jeep: informing efficient, environmentally conscientious use of HPC resources – ARCHER2 and DiRAC (https://net-zero-dri.ceda.ac.uk/hpc-jeep/)
- Mapping the DRI: collating a representative sample of the DRI using the UKRI InfraPortal (https://net-zero-dri.ceda.ac.uk/mapping/)
- Case studies update – detailed analysis for the following infrastructures: JASMIN, Archer2, Jade, Scafell Pike  

Running order: 
CarbonQuanDRI = 8:25
IRISCAST = 25:45
Energetic = 46:15
HPC-JEEP = 59:26
Mapping the DRI = 1:15:25
Case studies = 1:30:35

This webinar took place on Tuesday 31 January 2023. The slides can be found here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7612559