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PERSPECTIVE article

Front. Comput. Sci.
Sec. Human-Media Interaction
Volume 6 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fcomp.2024.1502784
This article is part of the Research Topic Promoting Green Computing in High-Energy Physics and Astrophysics View all articles

Sustainable computing workshops in high-energy physics at DESY

Provisionally accepted
Eleanor Jones Eleanor Jones 1*Juliette Alimena Juliette Alimena 1Christoph Beyer Christoph Beyer 1Ben Brueers Ben Brueers 1Frank Gaede Frank Gaede 1Nils Gillwald Nils Gillwald 1Michel Hernandez Villanueva Michel Hernandez Villanueva 2Yves Kemp Yves Kemp 1Thomas Madlener Thomas Madlener 1Kilian Schwarz Kilian Schwarz 1Christoph Wissing Christoph Wissing 1
  • 1 German Electron Synchrotron, Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres (HZ), Hamburg, Germany
  • 2 Department of Physics, Brookhaven National Laboratory (DOE), Upton, New York, United States

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    This perspective article details the program of sustainable computing workshops launched within the High Energy Physics department at Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY) in 2023. The workshop series targets scientific users of the National Analysis Facility, hosted at DESY, in order to promote sustainable software development and usage across a wide range of applications. Details of the structure of the workshops, as well as the reception amongst participants, will be presented. In addition, plans for the expansion of the workshop series will be outlined.

    Keywords: high-energy physics, Computing, sustainability, software engineering, code optimisation

    Received: 30 Sep 2024; Accepted: 28 Nov 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Jones, Alimena, Beyer, Brueers, Gaede, Gillwald, Hernandez Villanueva, Kemp, Madlener, Schwarz and Wissing. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Eleanor Jones, German Electron Synchrotron, Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres (HZ), Hamburg, Germany

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