The report from the Sustainability of AI-scale Digital Research
Infrastructure workshop @ eResearch Australasia is now available on the workshop's website.
Organised by Innate Innovation, the workshop created a safe environment, enabling broad representation from the community to discuss and develop a shared understanding of an AI-centric future. Across all themes, we discussed matters across the hardware, services, platforms and research stack. It ratified the gaps in collective knowledge and provided an example approach for ecosystem-wide co-design of pre-competitive facets.
Some key findings:
At the data centre level, the Australian DRI ecosystem has sufficient buying power to adopt cooling innovation progressively,
An increased consciousness exists to tailor performance/watt and cooling efficiency to local concerns,
The critical gap, however, is the need for more attention given to software efficiency, given its dominant role in overall efficiency.
With a baseline understanding set, community engagement & confidence in the format, and distinct themes with learnings, we propose a series of workshops to develop the questions and findings further.
You can view the presentation version of the summary report online (expandable to full screen) or register to download the print-friendly version. Please get in touch with us for further evidence or details.