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News: Conference on environmental sustainability in research computing, in Geneva, Switzerland from 4th--8th May 2026

Dear all

SC4RC, the Sustainability Conference for Responsible Research Computing, is holding its first interdisciplinary event at CERN this May, and we are trying to reach out to members of the bioinformatics community who are working on, or are interested in, reducing the environmental impact of their computing use. If this sounds like you, we encourage you to find out more at our Indico site, and register now. Abstract submissions are open until Friday.

Regards,

Rakhi Mahbubani

Theoretical physicist, Rudjer Boskovic Institute,

For the Organizing Committee.

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Last chance to register for SC4RC 2026 - the first interdisciplinary conference on environmentally sustainable research computing

Registrations for SC4RC 2026, the Sustainability Conference for Responsible Research Computing, close on April 10th. SC4RC is open to researchers across all disciplines. Register now to join us in Geneva, Switzerland from May 4-8 2026.

Confirmed speakers include:

  • Raghavendra Selvan (University of Copenhagen): title TBC
  • Ben van Werkhoven (Leiden University): "Accelerated Computing"
  • Jo Walton (University of Sussex): "Digital Humanities Perspective and DHCC"
  • Wim Vanderbauwhede (University of Glasgow): title TBC
  • Jeremy Cohen (Imperial College London): "Developing a sustainable institutional research computing culture"
  • Michael Sparks (University of Manchester): title TBC

More details can be found on the event page: https://indico.cern.ch/e/sc4rc2026.

Hope to see you there!

Best regards,

The SC4RC Organising Committee

Anica Araneta University of Cambridge, UK

Auroop Ganguly Northeastern University, Boston, USA

Grant Hill University of Sheffield, UK

Loic Lannelongue (Co-Chair) University of Cambridge, UK

Rakhi Mahbubani (Co-Chair) Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Croatia

Peter Millington University of Manchester, UK

Ayan Paul Northeastern University, Boston, USA

Karolos Potamianos University of Warwick, UK

Markus Schulz CERN, Switzerland

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