Nicolás Erdödy
BIO
Nicolás Erdödy founded Open Parallel Ltd 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 for the co-funded contribution to the computing platform of the Square Kilometre Array radio telescope project (SKA) – the largest civil scientific and engineering instrument in the world.
Core knowledge developed for the SKA is behind Open Parallel’s new decadal project "Whakarongo ki te Whenua" (Listen to the Land - L2L) – a massive platform concept for New Zealand’s Agritech and primary sector, which Nicolás will present at CARLA2023 under the paper "What does a Nation-wide Digital Nervous System use of an Operating System?".
Nicolás was a PC Member of PAISE2021 (Parallel AI & Systems for the Edge) and SC21 (SuperComputing 2021), and will lead the BoF session "Agriculture Empowered by Supercomputing" at SC23 in Denver, USA in November 2023.
Nicolás has been the Conference Director of the Multicore World series of conferences 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, and can ask for a beer in five human languages.