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Sustainability, Carbon-neutrality and HPC

DescriptionWhat does it mean for HPC to be sustainable? The largest supercomputers today are consuming more than 20 megawatts, and those built to support AI training and inference are even larger. We have made significant improvements to operational efficiency in HPC. We now need to consider a broader scope of environmental impacts across the life cycle of our systems and data centers. This includes design, manufacturing, transportation, operations, and end-of life. How do we manage water as a resource and trade-off data center energy efficiency and water consumption? Is there a way to improve sustainability by operating supercomputer and data centers more dynamically without adversely affecting users? Can there be effective heat re-use for district heating and greenhouse food production? Reducing the carbon impact of ever larger HPC and AI clusters is going to require better and more consistent reporting. What are the right metrics for really driving accountability?

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