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Keynote Thursday May 22, 2025 - Parc Floral de Paris

Encouraging energy efficiency and sustainability in HPC    
Natalie Bates
Chair Energy Efficient HPC Working Group

The Energy Efficient High Performance Computing Working Group (EE HPC WG) encourages energy efficiency and sustainability in HPC. It is an open global forum for collective action and peer-to-peer exchange. There are ~1300 volunteer members in more than 40 countries. What makes the EE HPC WG unique is the way it brings together people across organizational silos and geographies. The approach is to create teams that focus on specific, concrete and actionable deliverables. The teams are task forces, not meant to be long-lived. The deliverables are generally documents, for example, whitepapers or published papers. EE HPC WG whitepapers have been adopted by other organizations such as the Top500/Green500, The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) and the Open Compute Project. Other EE HPC WG documents are operational guidelines, case-studies, lessons learned and best practices. Surveys are conducted and the results published to facilitate research and technology development.

This talk will describe some of the current team work in sustainability and procurement, liquid cooling, operational data analytics and power measurement.

Biography: Natalie Bates has led the Energy Efficient High Performance Computing Working Group (EE HPC WG) since its inception in 2010. Natalie has been the technical and executive leader for this ‘open source’ working group that disseminates best practices, shares information (peer to peer exchange), and takes collective action. Prior to leading the EE HPC WG, Natalie's career spanned twenty years with Intel Corporation where she was a senior manager of highly complex programs taking new products to market, delivering multi-component and multi-partner platforms, and negotiating strategic technical industry initiatives. She is a strong advocate and effective agent for organizational change, transition and process improvement. Her broader interest is to influence human’s impact on the planet by promoting sustainability and leveraging her extensive experience with computing and collaboration. Natalie has a BA in Sociology from Reed College and studied Electrical Engineering at Sacramento State University, California.

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