Oct. 7 – The University of Siena looks into the future where technology will have machines with hundreds of thousands of computational units that will work separately but will coordinate distributing and synchronizing the processes in the most efficient manner possible. To explore the full potential of supercomputer calculations is the goal of the Teraflux research project, supported by the European Union with a contribution of over € 6 million and coordinated by Professor Roberto Giorgi from the University of Siena. The project sees 11 partner universities and more than 50 researchers working together for 2 years. And it recently embarked a new partner university that made the project become intercontinental: the University of Delaware and its research group led by Professor Guang U.S. Gao, one of the leading experts on data streams in high-performance processors, joined in. Guang Gao thus created a bridge between Europe and the U.S. that will lead to new solutions, to be implemented over the next 20 years, to take advantage of the most efficient architectures and reach computing powers still unthinkable, with attention to energy saving, applications from the study of new drugs and more futuristic information management. An exponential increase in computing power is needed to handle the large amount of data, or “big –data,” which researchers are now collecting in every field of analysis, and to achieve greater accuracy in classical seismology, meteorology, modeling of molecular chains or the design of new potent drugs problems.
