Cyprus Institute, IBM in joint research in computational science

The Cyprus Institute (CyI) and IBM announced that they will pursue collaborative research in the areas of computational sciences and high performance computing.
The research agenda will include multi-scale simulations of materials for environmental technologies and green data center design; data analysis of complex, massive data from physical sciences; and high performance computing in financial and business modeling. The scientific staff of the computation-based Science and Technology Research Center (CaSToRC) of the Cyprus Institute, the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory and IBM Cyprus will work together to define joint projects in these research areas.
“It is appropriate that the Cyprus Institute signs a collaboration agreement with IBM on the day of the signing of the US-Cyprus bilateral agreement and in the presence of our partners from the University of Illinois,” said the President of the Cyprus Institute, Prof. C. N. Papanicolas.
Prior to the announcement, Prof. T. Dunning, Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA, located at the University of Illinois) delivered a talk about the Blue Waters, the next generation computer being developed jointly by NCSA and IBM, followed by a talk from Eleni Pratsini, Manager Mathematical and Computational Sciences, IBM Zurich Research Lab, on high performance computing.