ETP4HPC Webinar - Sustainability and Usability

11:00 am - noon CET

Sustainability has been receiving increased attention for a while. Historically tied for example to forestry (“only cut as much wood as you need and make sure that you plant enough trees so that your grandchildren will be able to cut enough wood for their needs”), it has made its way into most aspects of today's economy, not the least into HPC and Data Analytics/AI.

This webinar will focus on the ETP4HPC white paper on sustainability and usability, authored by Pascale Rosse-Laurent, Francois Bodin and Andreas Wierse. We will first look at the definition of sustainability as we see it in the context of HPC and Data Analytics. This definition will go well beyond simple energy efficiency. We have identified several key issues and will present and put up for discussion five key recommendations. This will of course be followed by a discussion which we would like to use to get your inputs to this important topic and to probably explain some of our recommendations depending on your feedback.

Speaker

Dr. Andreas Wierse acts since 2011 as Managing Director of SICOS BW GmbH, located in Stuttgart. The company was founded by the University of Stuttgart and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) to support small and medium sized enterprises in the uptake of smart data technology and is financially supported significantly by the ministry for science, research and art of Baden-Württemberg and its shareholders Since 2014 is his also managing director of HWW GmbH, a public/private partnership for industrial use of HPC including shareholders like Porsche, T-Systems and the state of Baden-Württemberg. In May 2018 he was appointed as member of the board of DigitalSüdwest 2025 to support SMEs in the southwest on their path towards digital transformation. Since April 2019 he is chair of the Mittelstands- und Wirtschaftsunion (MIT) in Böblingen County.
He received a doctor’s degree at Stuttgart University in 2002 and finished his studies of Mathematics at Bonn University in 1991.