Bradford Roarr
(They/Them)
Lead Research Software Engineer - Sustainability and Performance
Brown University - Center for Computation and Visualization
Providence, USA
Speaks: English
Biography
Hey all, I'm relatively new to green software. I pitched a new position to my high-performance computing team at the university where I work. I'll be looking into how to make our super computing facility a little more green. Right now I got a grant from Brown University to build out a carbon-aware super computer scheduler. I'll be presenting the SCI standard to our data science community here at Brown. And I've even got a (tiny) PR for `if-core`. I'm looking for ways to broaden my impact at Brown and beyond. I thought this might be a fun way to get more involved with the green tech community https://github.com/brown-ccv/s12y-dscov-sci https://sustainability.brown.edu/get-involved/sustainability-seed-grants https://github.com/Green-Software-Foundation/if-core/pull/30
Activity History
2025
Feb 28
Greening Code
A brief tour of Software Sustainability and Software Carbon Intensity
Small lunch workshop on software sustainability and the Software Carbon Intensity (SCI) standard using Impact Framework
DSCoV Workshop Pizza Lunch: Introduction to the Software Carbon Intensity framework
events.brown.edu
Feb 4
First GSF contribution
Quick patch for Impact Framework Core to better handle metrics from Prometheus
fix(utils): allow underscores in parameters for arithmetic expressions by broarr · Pull Request #30 · Green-Software-Foundation/if...
github.com
Jan 13
Sustainability Seed Grant
EcoPace: A Carbon-Conscious Scheduler for Research Computing Environments
Awarded a Sustainability Seed Grant to research and develop a carbon-aware scheduler for the slurm high-performance cluster scheduler
Sustainability Seed Grants
sustainability.brown.edu
