GreenDIGIT

Greener Future Digital Research Infrastructures

About

GreenDIGIT

Coordinator: University of Amsterdam

In order to keep Research Infrastructures at the highest level of excellence in science, new technologies and solutions must be developed to steer toward a reduced environmental footprint, as is the case for all domains of our societies. GreenDIGIT brings together 4 major distributed Digital Infrastructures at different lifecycle stages, EGI, SLICES, SoBigData, and EBRAINS, to tackle the challenge of environmental impact reduction with the ambition to provide solutions that are reusable across the whole spectrum of digital services on the ESFRI landscape and play a role model.

GreenDIGIT will capture good practices and existing solutions and will develop new technologies and solutions for all aspects of the digital continuum: from service provisioning to monitoring, job scheduling, resources allocation, architecture, workload and Open Science practices, task execution, storage, and use of green energy.

GreenDIGIT will deliver these solutions as building blocks, with a reference architecture and guidelines for RIs to lower their environmental footprint. It will include the extension of a workload manager, Virtual Machine Manager, AI/ML training framework, and IoT/5G/network management solutions from 4 participating RIs with new brokering logic to optimize task execution toward low-energy use. User-side tools and Virtual Research Environments (VREs) will also be expanded with energy usage reporting and reproducibility capabilities to motivate users to apply low-energy practices.

The new solutions will be validated through reference scientific use cases from diverse disciplines and will be promoted to providers and users through an active dissemination and training programme, in order to prepare the next generation of Digital RIs with a low environmental footprint.

Cordis

start

01/03/2024

end

28/02/2027

Funding Source

EC Horizon Europe

project budget

EUR 4,938,972.50

egi budget

EUR 483,875

Contract No.

101131207

type of project

Research and innovation

Target Group

Research communities

EGI Foundation role in the project:

Within the project, EGI and its partners (CESNET, CNRS, CSIC, SZTAKI) will conduct an environmental impact landscape assessment within the EGI federation and in partner ESFRIs to identify best practices and opportunities related to environmental sustainability. We will develop an environmental metrics publication system for digital service providers and energy-aware brokering logics for scientific workflows running on EGI HTC, cloud, container and AI services. EGI will develop an environmental impact self-assessment questionnaire for Research Infrastructures. Finally, EGI will assist with project communications and will provide consultancy and training for service providers within and beyond EGI on methods and approaches to lower their environmental impact.