Last week (London, 18-19 Feb 2025), GreenDIGIT’s consortium representative Catalin Condurache (EGI) gave an invited presentation about GreenDIGIT, in NetDRIVE’s project meeting.
The Network for sustainable Digital Research Infrastructure Vision and Expertise (NetDRIVE) project is developing a forum for managers, software engineers, academics and others to come together to build a common vision for a sustainable future and to incite a transition to sustainable working practices in the Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI) communities by 2040 or sooner.
The implementation of NetDRIVE started in January 2025 and it has been coordinated and funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). The event in London focused on specific 3 topics – maintain a competitive computing capability while net zero challenges need to be met together with 10-fold increase per decade in the price of top-end machine – manage ethical issues around culture change and resource usage for compute resource and accosted data – develop new skills needed both for rapidly advancing technology and evolving sustainability targets. While not all entire topics and issues discussed were relevant to GreenDIGIT, there were significant matters that related with our ‘Shared Responsibility in Sustainability of RI’ model and the GreenDIGIT talk was well received with several questions during Q&A and further discussions during the network breaks and breakout sessions.
Further collaboration with NetDRIVE could be mutually beneficial, and UKRI DRI presents a strong opportunity as an external candidate to evaluate key GreenDIGIT outcomes, including the self-assessment questionnaire and the first set of policy recommendations.