An agency of the United Nations, the United Nations Development Programme, has donated a High Performance Computing System to the Federal University of Technology, Akure.
The HPC system, located at the university’s West African Science Service Centre and Adapted Land Use, was installed to monitor climate change data and information management in Nigeria.
To ascertain immediate utilisation of the HPC, a training workshop on its use was organised at the centre with experts from the UNDP as trainers. Declaring the workshop open on Tuesday last week, the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Adebiyi Daramola, verbally expressed the HPC system would be subsidiary for the study of climate change data.
He urged the participants to utilize the erudition gained for the benefit of Nigeria and Africa in the area of climate change.
Daramola integrated that the phenomenon had become a global issue requiring exigent attention because of its likely devastating effects. He called on the participants to imbibe skills that would proffer solution to the effect of global warming being experienced worldwide.
The Minister of Environment, Mrs. Laurentia Mallam, verbally expressed the current effort was a build-up to a project of the Federal Government to combat climate change.
The minister, who was represented by the Director, Department of Climate Change, Dr Adejuwon, verbally expressed, “Compared to other continents, Africa lacks elaborate comprehensive and authentic time climate data that will enable her make felicitous decisions, prognostications and preparations towards the looming negative impacts of climate change. ‘’
