O1: Assess status and trends of low impact computing within 4 DIGIT RIs (EGI, SLICES, SoBigData, EBRAINS) and in the broader digital service provider community of ESFRIs, to produce recommendations and roadmaps for providers for during and beyond the project.
Together, WP3 and WP8 produced the landscape survey, self-assessment questionnaire tools, and first policy recommendations, supporting EU and ESFRI Environmental Sustainability, Green Deal, and SDG17 goals.
O2: Provide reference architecture and design principles, as well as an actionable model for RIs about environmental impact assessment and monitoring, reflecting on the whole RI lifecycle and including the digital infrastructure components and their interaction with the broader environment.
WP4 defined design principles and architectures to reduce environmental impact across digital RI ecosystem. D4.1 delivered a State-of-the-Art analysis of best practices, covering software engineering for scientific applications and international standards on energy efficiency and environmental management. D4.2 produced Architecture Framework for RI Sustainability (AF4RIS), Shared Responsibility Model for Sustainability (SRM4S) with roles and recommendations for RI operators, infrastructure researchers, and users, and RI Lifecycle Model (RILM), and compliance guidelines for European policies, regulations, and with standards.
O3: Develop and validate new and innovative technologies, methods, and tools for digital service providers within European Research Infrastructures through which they can reduce their energy consumptions and overall environmental impact. [Related to WP6, WP7]
T6.1 developed the initial version of metric publication system. T6.2-6.4 conducted initial analysis and algorithms for energy-aware brokering in IoT and scientific applications, estimating available algorithms for central brokering logic. T6.5 started designing and implementing a tool for calculating electricity’s environmental footprint using open data from ENTSO-E. WP7 began at M16, completed initial assessments, and developed the initial brokering architecture design (based on WP4). Technologies from research infrastructures and related partners were identified, alongside demonstrative use cases and workloads.
O4: Develop and provide for researchers technical tools that assist them in the design, execution and sharing of environmental impact aware digital applications with reproducibility, Open Science and FAIR data management considerations.
T5.1 proposed 4 pillar methodologies for reproducible experiments, aligned with D4.2’s reference architecture. It developed virtual research environment (VRE) using Jupyter notebooks, and tools like EcoJupyter dashboard for researcher awareness and scientific workflow optimisation (D5.1). T5.2 created fine-grained energy measurement tools and a Common Information Model (CIM) for energy and environmental impact metrics in federated RIs (D5.2). T5.3 delivered data management tools for VREs, integrating T5.1’s VRE tools with federated data management infrastructure (FDMI) to enhance reproducibility purpose (D5.3). These TRL6 prototypes were open sourced and set a foundation for further extension in WP7 (period 2) to develop the Reproducibility as a Service (RaaS) prototype using building blocks from WP4-WP7.
O5: Educate and support digital service providers in the RI communities about good practices on environmental impact conscious lifecycle management and operation of infrastructures and services
During M1-M18, various means (both physical and digital) were established and utilised to establish a GreenDIGIT brand identity.
