Author

Nicolás Erdödy founded Open Parallel in 2010 as a strategy and technology consultancy, specialized 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 radio telescope project (SKA) – the largest civil scientific and engineering instrument in the world. He was a prime author of the two SKA Memos that address security for HPC systems: "Considerations for the Science Data Processor (SDP) Operating System" and "Security for the SDP Architecture Considerations".

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. At SC23, Nicolás will lead the 1st BoF session "Agriculture Empowered by Supercomputing".

Nicolás is the Conference Director of the Multicore World conference series 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.