NetDRIVE Workshops Queen Mary University London February 18/19, 2025

On 18 -19 February 2025, a meeting was held in London entitled NetDRIVE: Priorities and Ethics of Research Computing Investments.  

Thie meeting marked the initiation of NetDRIVE Stage 2 and aimed to address the following questions: 

• How can we maintain competitive computing capability when we have 10-fold increase per decade in the price of a competitive machine?  

• How do we manage ethical issues around a national compute resource together with associated data?  

• How do we develop the new skills needed both for rapidly advancing technology and evolving sustainability targets? 

The meeting brought together users and stakeholders from across the digital research community and featured plenary presentations, as well as breakout sessions that enabled attendees to form groups to formulate ideas to address questions above. Remote attendees could also join the plenary sessions and formed an online breakout group to address the questions.