During the workshop, participants attended theplenary sessions and thematic sessions with the foreign experts to define theguidelines of the following two stages of this initiative, which shouldconclude in mid-2009.
The thematic sessions were: “Strategies”, “Climate and theEnvironment” and “Mathematical Modeling and infrastructureGrid.” Members of CMM, especially from the Environment Lab and Cluster, participatedactively in them.
For Rodrigo Delgado, Industrial Engineering and research assistant of SAEMC project, this workshop not onlypermitted to know what is being done at the Latin American and European GridComputing, but also to understand the challenges behind the installation of localand international collaborative initiatives. “It meant to know what are thelocal actors doing, to know their views and wishes of collaboration,” hesays. The engineer also pointed the level of the speakers, who are at thefrontier of knowledge of both, applications and knowledge transfer in theindustrial and productive areas.
The Grid computing and the CMM
According to Claudio Baeza, project engineer of the HPC lab and Grid ComputingLaboratory of CMM, participate in this project is a way to position the Centrefor Mathematical Modeling as a leader and pioneer in this area. “Currently(CMM) is the only institution in Chile that has specific experience in the useof Grid Computing and also has members who have participated in installation, configurationand management of a Grid, in addition to developing applications,” heexplains.
“The Grid is a cross-pillar that can serve as a bridge betweenmathematicians, scientists and engineers from other areas, with the aim ofhaving a better approach with industry, and also to exploit the advantages ofthe new concept was born from Technology of the Information and Science: e-Science,”he concludes.
More information about this workshop and speakers: www.reuna.cl
| Who is part inthis Project
The “II Workshop of Articulation for the linking between Science andBusiness: e-Science and Industry: Towards a National Infrastructure Grid”is a project implemented by Reuna inconjunction with University of Chile, through the CMM, the University ofConcepción, the centers of excellence for Modeling and Computer Science at theUniversity of La Frontera, the Catholic University of North and the Centre forAdvanced Studies of Arid, CEAZA, University of La Serena. |
