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Digital Research Sustainability
This lesson provides an introduction to digital research sustainability. Digital research practices involve a number of activities that can lead to carbon emissions. This lesson is designed to identify such activities and provide practical ways to reduce the emissions.
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Keywords: Energy, GHG, Green IT, HPC, Power, carbon emissions, embodied carbon, environmental impact, greenhouse gas protocol, hardware, research, software, sustainability
Competency level: • Beginner
Target audience: Researchers who write code, Research Software Engineers, Lab scientists who do computational work, Researchers who use HPC, Researchers who use GPUs
Resource type: Lesson
Status: Active
Learning objectives:
- Explain the big picture for reducing carbon emissions and how that applies to digital research
- Explain what embodied carbon is
- Explore ways to measure and estimate carbon emissions from High Performance Computing clusters
- Explore ways to measure and estimate carbon emissions from research software development
- Identify tools and resources to help estimate emissions associated with daily computational research tasks
- Identify which aspects of a research workflow are most carbon‑intensive and why
- Understand the difference between energy and power, how energy is produced, what are low-carbon energy sources and how they operate
- Use the greenhouse gas (GHG) protocol to estimate carbon emissions
Contributors: Imperial College London
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