SC4RC 2026 - Sustainability Conference for Responsible Research Computing

4-8 May 2026 | Geneva, Switzerland & Online

Computing plays a vital role in many areas of research supporting modelling, simulation and data analysis across disciplines ranging from literature and economics, to medicine and astrophysics. Its use has a significant negative impact on the environment, from raw material extraction and processing in production of computing hardware, through energy use in its operation, to its decommissioning and reuse/recycling. The demand for higher capacity and efficacy of hardware and software tools, as well as increasing dataset size, suggests these environmental impacts will continue to grow, unless synergies between sustainable research practices, resource optimisation and impact mitigation are recognised and exploited.

All research communities have a responsibility to limit the environmental impacts of their activities, and there is a pressing need for a coordinated and interdisciplinary focus on computing impacts. this conference aims to facilitate knowledge exchange between data-intensive disciplines, allowing the sharing of best practice, the development of common resources, and the catalysis of new interdisciplinary collaborations.