Monday, 6/4/2018
Rui Oliveira, researcher
at HASLab researcher centre, presented the Minho Advanced Computing Centre
(MACC), which should be functional at the beginning of 2019. The professor also
challenged the regional industrial base to take advantage of the biggest
national computer.
MAAC is a Portuguese infrastructure that supports
research, designed for digital modelling and simulation and for data
processing, analysis and visualisation in large quantities. In June, the
University of Minho will receive from the Texas Advanced Computing Center of
the University of Texas about 800 computers, with more than 60,000 colours that
will comprise the supercomputer.
The conference “Supercomputação e Data Science... De Braga para o Mundo”
(“Supercomputing and Data Science...From Braga to the World” in English) is
part of the third Economy Week and took place last Tuesday at Forum Braga with
interventions by Rui Oliveira (UMinho) Pedro Ferreira (i3S/Ipatimup), Ingolf
Wittman (IBM), Manuel Dias (Microsoft), José María Cela (BSC Applied Projects),
Susana Mata (Accenture), Raul Azevedo (WeDo) and Paulo Vilaça (SilicoLife). The event was closed by António Cunha (UMinho).
