The International Conference on “Advanced Connectivity Infrastructure for Digital Economy “, to be held on 3 May at the Hotel Ritz, is organized by Fundación Chile and the National Science Foundation and has the support of eight institutions, including the Center for Mathematical Modeling of FCFM-U. de Chile.
Among the speakers and panelists are Steven Conroy, Minister of Broadband Communications and Digital Economy of Australia; Yuji Inoue, president of the Center for Technology Information of Toyota; Anthony Tyson, director of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), Minister of Economy Juan Andrés Fontaine, and the Minister of Transport and Telecommunications, Pedro Pablo Errázuriz.
During the event, the cases of leading countries in the implementation of national broadband access, such as Australia and Japan, will be presented and through exhibitions and panel discussions will be examined the scientific and technological requirements involving an advanced networking environment. It is in this context to address the massive data management and high performance computing.
Eduardo Vera, executive director of the National Laboratory for High Performance Computing (NLHPC) of the CMM and a member of the panel “Challenges of Exponential Data Growth and Management”, the astronomical projects to be installed in Chile will require both technology edge and advanced math. “The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) for example will deliver more than 15 terabytes of data per night, equivalent to twice the information contained in the Library of the American Congress, and there is no possibility to analyze it without the development of new algorithms, ” he explains.
He adds: “The new computing capabilities to super-high speed remote access, will handle huge volumes of data, but this will only be possible through the use of high performance computers and advanced mathematical models capable of simulating highly complex systems.”
For the executive director of NLHPC-CMM major scientific projects can build capabilities that can then be used in other fields of knowledge. “In Australia, 43 billion dollars are invested in infrastructure and are taking optical astronomy as the driver of technological development which will then be applied in diverse areas of economics, science and medicine,” he says.
