Data analytics is the foundation of today’s technology. Different processes and projects carried out to develop tools, applications, devices or algorithms rely on different information approaches to achieve better results. Therefore, it is necessary to have an infrastructure that supports such demands.
There is a supercomputer in Colombia capable of processing 103 billion operations per second using a capacity of 103 teraflops. A performance that puts the country in worldwide competition in terms of information processing applied to technological development.
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According to Jorge Alberto Jaramillo Garzón, scientific director of Bios, this is no trivial fact, as the supercomputer that tracks his company in terms of power levels is in the hands of Universidad Industrial de Santander. reaches approximately 68 teraflops only.
Realizing this potential, Bios, a technology development center specializing in biotechnology and data science, decided to bet on the latest technology and bring unprecedented infrastructure to the country. to give companies access to the technologies of the fourth industrial revolution.
“What we do in terms of data science is to support all sectors of the economy (manufacturing, product and service sales, marketing, etc.) to process all the data they produce daily, thus implementing solutions that contribute to the sector. to improve times, costs and be more efficient, among others”, stresses Miguel Trujillo, Managing Director of Bios.
With this support, companies can improve their processes and enter new markets, strategically mobilize their inventory, or implement technologies that allow them to identify opportunities to increase their competitiveness, all through science and technology.
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This center has grown exponentially over the past two years to the point of recording a 1,700 percent growth in operating income, i.e. services sales, in 2021, in addition to consolidation of an ever-growing team of professionals.
Bios is one of the few technology development centers in Latin America created by the articulation of private companies. In this case, Microsoft and Hewlett Packard offer academia (with different universities) and the government sector, Mintic and Minciencias, and support as well as being a direct bridge between applied scientific knowledge and businessmen.
Therefore, the benefits for the productive sector are innumerable. Data science is one of the pillars of industry 4.0.
Many studies and analysis processes for recent major developments such as artificial intelligence, blockchain or big data are supported here.
It should be noted that all this has technical support in the ability to analyze data.
At that time, Having a machine that can produce this process in less time than any other nationwide opens up a wide range of possibilities. According to the company’s scientific director, the possibilities continue to increase for weather forecasts, predictive analytics with sociodemographic or genomic data, and for the technological development of the country from then on.
However, the process posed enormous difficulties, especially in finding funds to install the machine, a project that was originally planned to be undertaken with the support of the National Government as well as the Chinese government.
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Source: Exame
