{"id":39154,"date":"2025-09-23T17:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T17:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/39154\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T17:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T17:04:08","slug":"greener-computing-in-big-science-is-possible-if-we-change-our-data-processing-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/39154\/","title":{"rendered":"Greener computing in \u2018big science\u2019 is possible\u2026 if we change our data processing approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-left:0px;text-align:left;\">One tool, \u2018Baler\u2019, works with an autoencoder \u2013 a type of neural network trained to decrease the number of dimensions of input data, making it smaller.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0px;text-align:left;\">Caterina Doglioni, Professor of Particle Physics, explains: \u201cThere are multiple avenues to reduce the computing resources we use. One is reducing the amount of data to be stored through data compression.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0px;text-align:left;\">The team are also measuring the energy usage of Baler and other approaches, to identify optimisations that could foster more energetically sustainable, data-driven scientific practices.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0px;text-align:left;\">Rosie Schiffmann adds: \u201cWith Baler and data compression as an example, we\u2019re giving researchers a way to track their computational \u2018metabolism\u2019 and make it more efficient. Green computing isn\u2019t a futuristic vision; it\u2019s actionable today if we rethink how we store and process data.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                        &#8216;;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One tool, \u2018Baler\u2019, works with an autoencoder \u2013 a type of neural network trained to decrease the number&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[35741,371,111,139,69,145,35742],"class_list":{"0":"post-39154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-ai-at-manchester","9":"tag-computing","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-university-of-manchester"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}