Description
The session deals with the growing importance of e-Infrastructures for the society and in particular for climate change. On one hand, the digital infrastructures with their computing power and simulations are contributing to better understanding the climate future, and also facilitate tools to fight and reduce some of its effects, such as wildfires that caused unprecedented damages in Australia, California and Siberia. On the other hand, e-Infrastructures have a significant carbon footprint and thus Green IT and energy efficient data centres are thus of particular importance.
Moderator: Irina Kupiainen (CSC)
• Paolo Budroni (e-IRG chair)
• João Pagaime (Portuguese e-IRG delegate)
• Paulo Quaresma (FCT board member)
Moderator: Irina Kupiainen (CSC – IT Center for Science Ltd.)
Chalmers e-Commons is a recently initiated university-wide initiative to further empower researchers and innovators at Chalmers University (Sweden) by providing support and collaborative projects for the full range of digital aspects of research. Building on several earlier efforts and a top-level strategic decision, e-Commons will provide an expert hub and integrated entry point for...
Update on supercomputer CSCS in Lugano Switzerland and their policies for lowering computing costs and a lighter carbon footprint. A potential European strategy for lowering cost and carbon footprint will also be proposed.
CSCS provides the supercomputers and expertise that help keep Swiss science at the forefront of development worldwide. Supercomputers are the tools of today’s inventors....
The EFIIA ("intelligence" in Greek) platform introduces an ecosystem for the holistic management of forest fires. This ecosystem brings together domain experts and technological advances in an effort to address the three important pillars of fire management: i.e. i) Prevention and preparedness, ii) Detection and Response iii) Restoration and Adaptation.
Therefore, EFIIA aims to address the...
Forest fires can be seen as endemic in Portugal and climate scenarios show that conditions will favor forest fires in the country. Policies, prevention and firefighting need to cope with future changes. Digital tools, like the ones proposed in the European FIre Integrated management plAtform (EFIIA platform) or in the Portuguese Institute for Sea and Atmosphere - IPMA’s climate portal, will...
