Description:
This sub-topic focuses on innovations in computing capabilities that are aimed at enabling or enhancing the analysis of complex science, engineering, medical, business, or social issues. Of particular interest are technologies relating to internet-based networked computing resources.
Examples of relevant technical fields include (but are not limited to): infrastructure as a service; platform as a service; software as a service; virtualization; cloud-based storage; distributed computing; compute cluster architectures; in-memory processing; device-cloud architecture; data integrity and availability; and data security and confidentiality in distributed computing networks. Applications include (but are not limited to): stock market analysis and prediction; cryptanalysis; weather forecasting; fluid dynamic modelling, acoustic modelling and other computationally intensive engineering modelling; advanced speech processing; and video analysis and processing.
