UTM, Portugal's IPG To Develop Software To Analyse Big Data

ISKANDAR PUTERI, Aug 24 (Bernama) -- Malaysian public university of University of Technology, Malaysia (UTM) is partnering with Portugal's Polytechnic Institute of Guarda (IPG) to develop a software to analyse big data for corporations and big businesses. UTM Big Data Centre Director, Prof Dr Siti Mariyam Shamsuddin, said the software -- Graphic Processing Unit Machine Learning Library (GPUMlib) -- could be used to identify current trends and predict probabilities of future trends. "We can use it, for example, to analyse flight data that can analyse weather conditions, flight routes as well as analysing what's trending on Twitter. "Through analysing those data, corporations and big businesses can use them to re-strategise or replan their future businesses," she told reporters after the signing of memorandum of understanding (MOU) and memorandum of agreement (MOA) with IPG here Wednesday. UTM Deputy Vice Chancellor (Development), Prof Dr Azlan Abdul Rahman, and Portugal's IPG President, Prof Constantino Mendes Rei, signed the MOU and MOA. Siti Mariyam said the software development, which would cost about RM1 million initially, was expected to be commercialised within a year. She said the partnership would also address the needs in making sense of huge amount of complex data and to meet the rise of analytics-centric computing which intensified demand for highly-qualified big data scientists and data science enthusiasts. --BERNAMA