Conference Centre @ CityWest.

When you are hosting events such as e-security conferences you really can’t have something that is modelled on the old Cow Sheds at the RDS.

Really conferences are for products and services that have high weight to value ratios.

You need hi-spec architecture. Something to the same standard as The Spencer Dock proposal.

Croker has a good exhibition centre but if the tourism policy review group are to be believed 2000-5000 capacity is about the size.

This looks to be the future possibilities of computational power, moving down onto desktop systems:

While ‘image processing’ is historically a classic example of a 32-bit operation and ideal when optimized for the AltiVec unit, 64-bit code is commonly associated with ‘computational fluid dynamics’ (CFD) which includes weather modeling, airflow studies as applied to aircraft design, fluids and particles in motion as with high energy plasmas, nuclear reactions, and hydraulics.

That is just a quote from a NASA project to assess the possibilities of using Apple G5 systems for that kind of task load.

In our situation, with architecture the particles are the people moving around the building itself. They are already using that kind of technology to render the photorealism you see in the Shay Cleary render of a tall building. But I think the uses for technology could be a lot more for architects too. Given time, i.e. not my generation. 🙂

Judging from some of the articles I have read, people I have spoken to etc, the IT infrastructure behind running a place like Las Vegas is pretty phenomenal.

The IT guys there size the system required around the job it is doing, and not the other way around. Normally you have people who just order something from the Dell catalogue and then try to make it fit.

It doesn’t work that way with a Conference centre etc. Even the power supply requirements of such a venue on its own would be huge, to actually host all those systems and machines buzzing away for all the awe-struck visitors to drool all over.

We aren’t too bad in Ireland as regards power though. But things like good Wi-Fi connectivity and plenty of power points for people to re-charge devices, that is all part of this global tech-show band wagon nowadays. Because you practically are having the tech show reported live through various web sites all over the galaxy, as it happens so to speak! 🙂

In Las Vegas, this is all par for the course and you have all the guys you need to make this happen. That is the hardest part here in this country – hiring the expertise. My best guess, is that you are talking about hiring in short term contractors from London at the nearest to provide that necessary connectivity to make things like this actually happen at all.

yeah, when you consider the airport, the hotels, the catering etc, etc. It would certainly one hell of a techie ploughing match! 🙂

I dunno!,

I was listening to the debate on electronic voting in the Dail yesterday and it sounded more like a ZOO, so why shouldn’t the conference centre be like a barn!!!

(Especially since Fianna Fail will probably hold their Ard Dheis there next year!!):D