Protecting the beauty of the artistic and environmental heritage by combining the power of supercomputers with multidisciplinarity: this is one of the objectives of the Spoke 5 'Environment and Natural Disasters' of the ICSC - National Center for Research in High performance Computing Big Data and Quantum Computing. The protagonist of the new episode of the podcast '10 at 18' is Roberto Bellotti, Professor of the University of Bari and Leader of Spoke 5.
The cost of damage caused by natural and environmental disasters constitutes a continuously increasing expenditure item, a trend that demonstrates how increasingly fundamental it is to integrate economic and sociological skills to improve evaluation and mitigation programs. “Within the Spoke – explains Bellotti in the new episode – we can count on a wide spectrum of expertise: starting with engineering ones, in the civil, structural and geotechnical fields; passing through skills related to mathematics and physics; up to the know-how in the fields of agriculture and, obviously, information technology.
Furthermore, we cannot forget the component linked to sociology and economics". A test bed for the development and grounding of the solutions that the Spoke 5 intends to create is provided by the Italian territory, which constitutes an open-air laboratory of all the problems that from an environmental point of view can and must be faced. “To give an example, in relation to the territory of Rome – adds Bellotti – the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, one of the eight Spoke 5 partners, is currently carrying out a very accurate simulation of the effects of a possible earthquake. Simulation which was also carried out using the Leonardo supercomputer. We are then observing the entire area of Naples and the Campi Flegrei, as it is subject to displacement, and the Daunia area, where we are monitoring the slow landslides on which many municipalities in the area are located".
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