Big Data & Computation
In 1939, the mathematician G. H. Hardy published a book, A Mathematician's Apology, in which he apologised for spending his entire lifetime working in a field as useless as number theory. He was greatly mistaken. Just half a century after his death, number theory became the basis for secure data transfer and thus an indispensable part of our lives.
Secure data transfer is of great importance for many companies today. In fact, there are many well-funded and increasingly difficult decryption competitions that are held to test the security of cryptographic methods. Cracking a code often requires enormous computing power. For this purpose, thousands of computers are linked to each other as one cluster (known as collaborative computing projects). Big Data Analysis helps find optimal strategies for classification of large computing tasks on the individual computers in a cluster.
Collaborative computing projects
Many users worldwide link their computers to perform calculations that they could not perform individually. These projects range from the detection of gravitational waves, stem cell research, deciphering codes to the search for extra-terrestrial life.
Over the last 21 years, we have participated in several collaborative computing projects. Besides providing computing power we have also helped optimize workflows to achieve the highest rate of computing performance.