Digital security, cloud computing, data management, and advanced computing are the central themes of the EGI 2024 conference, taking place in Lecce from September 30 to October 4. Scientists, digital infrastructure experts, and policymakers gather to explore how managing large volumes of data and utilizing supercomputers can accelerate research and innovation, with a particular focus on climate change.

Co-organized by the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC), the annual EGI conference—an international infrastructure providing advanced computing and data analysis services for research and innovation—brings together leading global scientific communities, cloud computing service providers, and security experts. The goal is to promote scientific and technological progress in advanced computing and data analysis.

Climate innovation at the heart of EGI 2024

With its extensive experience in climate research, CMCC plays a crucial role in the conference. CMCC’s Supercomputing Center, located in the Foundation’s headquarters in Lecce, represents a cutting-edge technological resource for studying climate change, as the largest computational facility in Italy and one of the most advanced in Europe, entirely dedicated to climate change research.

EGI 2024 provides a unique opportunity to explore the intersection of digital technology and climate change, facilitating networking and new synergies that can generate a significant global environmental impact.

Frontier topics at the intersection of innovation and research

The conference features numerous events and meetings at CMCC facilities, allowing participants to engage directly with experts in data science and climate change research, discussing current and future innovative climate projects, ranging from advanced climate modeling to data analysis, with an emphasis on climate resilience and sustainability.

Among the highlighted projects is GlobalCoast Cloud, presented by Professor Nadia Pinardi from the University of Bologna and a member of the CMCC Strategy Council. This project aims to enhance the monitoring of coastal conditions through the collection and analysis of global data, providing scalable and standardized solutions to strengthen the resilience of coastal communities, through climate adaptation and mitigation strategies.

Another significant project is the ENES Data Space, a digital infrastructure dedicated to the climate community, allowing access to climate data and computing resources for analyzing large data volumes using artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques.

Additional contributions from the CMCC to the EGI conference include relevant themes for climate research, such as data provenance management, which is essential for ensuring the reproducibility of scientific experiments, and the analysis of climate data usage statistics. More topics from CMCC researchers include the optimization of oil spill simulations, and digital technologies for predicting wildfires, using a “digital twin” model to enhance risk assessment.

These topics not only emphasize the importance of multidisciplinary research but also underscore the necessity for advanced digital infrastructures to tackle the challenges posed by climate change.

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• EGI conference 2024
• CMCC at EGI2024