2017-10-13 20:25:18
You will have noticed that it is enough to consult a product on the internet, so that many of the web pages that you see below offer you that same product in the advertisements.
How is it possible that they know so much about me? – you may have wondered, and rightly so. Currently (2017) there are more than 3,700 million Internet users, distributed throughout the world, connected through their computers, tablets, mobile phones, etc.; each one with the most varied hobbies and needs… Can you imagine the amount of data that we are generating, as a whole, at all times? How is it possible that I, a person lost in that enormous crowd, in my town of Villanueva del Pardillo, receive precisely the announcement that interests me? I think about it and try my best not to get paranoid.
The answer lies in the two words that motivate the title of today’s program: Supercomputing and Big Data.
Our guests, Francisco J. Alfaro Cortes y Jesus Escudero Sahuquilloteachers of Information Systems Department in Higher School of Computer Engineering from Albacete explain, in today’s program, the meaning of those terms that gave reason for being to the XXVII Summer School of Informatics of the University of Castilla-La Mancha. In this course, internationally renowned speakers, coming from different parts of the world, dedicated themselves to presenting and discussing with computer science students the latest advances in the design of Exascale performance-oriented supercomputing networks, that is, computing systems capable of to perform a minimum of 10^18^ operations per second (exaflop), for the massive processing of large data sets, known as Big-Data.
The need for large, very fast and powerful computers, capable of facing the challenges posed by different fields of scientific research, such as weather forecasting, simulating brain connections or analyzing the results of certain experiments, is legendary. particle physics, are very notable examples that force the development of increasingly powerful computing technologies. To these are added other fields related to the needs that the global market poses to companies that wish to offer personalized services to their clients, such as those I mentioned at the beginning.
These challenges make it necessary to continually develop better computing methods, designing more complex and efficient interconnection architectures, high-performance networks that connect both the different parts of each supercomputer and the computers with each other, networks that distribute information and organize traffic in a efficiently, respond quickly, have minimal energy consumption and offer highly reliable solutions.
We are talking about these and many other things today with Francisco J. Alfaro Cortes y Jesus Escudero Sahuquilloteachers of Information Systems Department in Higher School of Computer Engineering of Albacete and members of the Research Group on High Performance Networks and Architecture of the University of Castilla – La Mancha. I invite you to listen to them.
Other references:
The 27th Summer School in Computer Science
The UCLM celebrates an international summer course on supercomputing and Big-Data
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