Date: Wednesday 7 September 2011

Time: 10:00 - 15:30

Venue: University of Cambridge

City: Cambridge

Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) subjects are becoming more ICT-intensive. Like many activities they are making ever-greater use of desktop and mobile devices and the Internet. In addition, they have more specialised needs such as high performance computing and ICT-intensive equipment in laboratories. Patterns of ICT use are also changing, with suggestions that cloud computing could have a major impact on the way that computing-intensive STEM work is carried out.

This workshop will examine a number of these issues, and highlight examples of good practice in responding to them. 

Provisional programme

TimeActivity

10.00 - 10.30
Registration and refreshments

10.30 - 10.45
The Challenge of Sustainable STEM Computing
Professor Peter James, Director, Green in Silico Project

10.45 - 11.15
IT for Science and Technology at Cambridge - Overview
Ian Lewis, Director, University Computing Service (tbc)

11.15 - 11.35
Green IT Measures and STEM at the University of Cambridge – Technical Actions and Financial Incentives
Paul Hasley, Energy Manager

11.35 - 11.45
Comfort and discussion break

11.45 - 12.35
Green IT in the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering – Energy Efficiency and Student Projects
David Green, Superintendent, Engineering Workshop; Adam Booth, and David Beresford, EcoCooling

12.35 - 13.35
Lunch and Tour of New Server Room

13.35 - 14.05

Making Existing Server Rooms More Efficient 
Steve Bowes-Phipps, Data Centre Manager, University of Hertfordshire (first European University to
conform to EU Code of Conduct on Energy Efficient Data centres)

14.05 - 14.35
Innovative Approaches to Science Computing and Data Storage
Peter Hopton, Very PC and British Computing Society

14.35 - 15.05
Who Moved my HPC? Laboratory, Institutional or Cloud Solutions for Speed AND Sustainability 
Speaker tbc

15.05 - 15.30
Final questions and discussion
Experience sharing, improvement opportunities, key issues

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