Involving top talent from prestigious universities and research centres, small and medium-sized enterprises and industry, ten partners from six countries have joined forces to make EXA4MIND a reality and create a unique Extreme Data platform by 2026. With the series “Faces of EXA4MIND” we want to introduce the people who contribute to to achieving our ambitious goal: Building a platform for extreme data that enables advanced data analytics on supercomputers and automated data management with support for integration by design with EOSC and European data spaces.
Today we present Panagiotis Gkikopoulos from Terraview and the WP6 (SME Application Cases) leader of EXA4MIND. ‘I am managing WP6, which coordinates the two pilots: the viticulture pilot and the healthcare pilot’.
When asked what makes this project special, he is clear about it: ‘EXA4MIND will create a significant impact on the access to extreme data processing capabilities for small and medium-sized enterprises. The platform’s interface and data management tools combined with the HPC capabilities, given to us by the supercomputing centers, significantly lower the barrier to entry for users, such as ourselves, to make use of those technologies, that would typically be out of reach for us’.
Watch the full interview with Panagiotis Gkikopoulos here and below.