Author

Nicolás Erdödy founded Open Parallel in 2010 as a strategic R&D consultancy, specialised in next-gen high-tech ecosystems. A globally distributed company, Open Parallel was officially selected by the New Zealand Government in 2012 to contribute to the computing platform of the Square Kilometre Array radiotelescope project (SKA) – the largest civil scientific and engineering instrument in the world. Core knowledge developed for the SKA is behind Open Parallel’s decadal project Whakarongo ki te Whenua (Listen to the Land) – a massive platform concept for NZ’s Agritech and primary sector. Nicolás was PC Member of PAISE2021 (Parallel AI & Systems for the Edge) and SC21 (SuperComputing 2021). Nicolás is the Conference Director of Multicore World since 2011. He holds a Master of Entrepreneurship from the School of Business of University of Otago, New Zealand and studied Hydraulics (and Fortran) at the School of Engineering of Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay.