MPP OntoNet™ available at CINECA Supercomputing Center for Ultra Large-Scale Complexity Analysis

Como, February 17-th, 2020. The Massively Parallel Processing version of OntoNet™ is available for commercial applications at the Bologna-based CINECA Supercomputer Center. MPP OntoNet™ has been developed in collaboration with US-based SAIC, a premier technology integrator solving complex modernization and readiness challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian and intelligence markets.

The key application of MPP OntoNet is anomaly detection and anticipation in ultra large-scale systems and critical infrastructures. The goal is to mitigate systemic risks.

"We are proud to collaborate with CINECA in making ultra large-scale Quantitative Complexity Management (QCM) analysis available to the industry", said Dr. J. Marczyk, the Founder and President of Ontonix. "What threatens the resilience and stability of our global economy and society are systemic risks. While systemic risks have become known to the public after the 2008 economy meltdown, very little has been done in terms of regulation, not to mention analytical tools for assessing, measuring and managing systemic risks" he continued. "Systemic risks affect all critical infrastructures such as:

1. ICT networks
2. Transportation systems
3. Large supply chains
4. Defense systems
5. The global financial system
6. The IoT
7. The World as a System

With MPP OntoNet™ we can measure the resilience and complexity of these huge systems and to identify fragility hotspots, provide early-warnings of malfunctions, pre-crisis or pre-collapse conditions. With the QCM we are equipped to identify anomalies in any of them without resorting to Machine Learning. Complex infrastructures can fail in countless ways and it is practically impossible to define and to learn to recognize them. With the QCM the problem of anomaly detection is approached in a totally different light, which does not require expensive and lengthy classification and learning" he concluded.

About CINECA
CINECA is the largest Supercomputing Center in Italy, Since the 1960s Cineca's supercomputers are among the most important in Europe and worldwide, always present in the Top 500 list of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. Today Cineca's flagship supercomputer is MARCONI, a highly parallel system that in November 2019 was ranked 19th in the Top500. Visit website.

About SAIC
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) is a premier technology integrator in the technical, engineering, intelligence, and enterprise information technology markets. SAIC has approximately 15,000 employees worldwide. For more information visit website.

CISCO Publishes Anomaly Detection Article Featuring the QCM

Como, December 19-th, 2019. CISCO has published an article on Anomaly Detection which features QCM - Quantitative Complexity Management by Ontonix. The article postulates that “zero trust and complexity management represent a new basic combination for a closed-loop approach to anomaly detection and mitigation for critical infrastructures.” The article is available at CISCO’s blog.

“Thanks to the QCM we no longer need to define anomalies in advance and then train a Machine Learning algorithm to recognize them”, said Dr. J. Marczyk, the founder of Ontonix. “A sudden spike in complexity is an anomaly in itself for which training isn’t necessary. The number of anomalies that can emerge in complex systems and infrastructures is immense and it is a practical impossibility to define them all and then to train an ML tool to recognize them. Besides, training for anomalies in complex and expensive systems requires numerous examples of the said anomalies and this is a luxury that one can very rarely afford”, he added. “The article introduces for the first time the concept of complexity-based control, which allows one to drive the complexity of a given system to desired levels” he concluded.

About CISCO

Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American multinational technology conglomerate headquartered in San Jose, California, in the center of Silicon Valley. Cisco develops, manufactures and sells networking hardware, software, telecommunications equipment and other high-technology services and products. Visit site.

Ontonix, SAIC and the MMI Develop Android App for Patient Monitoring

Como, September 30-th, 2019. Ontonix, SAIC and the Military Medicine Institute in Warsaw have developed an Android-based App for real-time monitoring or patients in Intensive Care. The App processes streaming data originating in monitoring equipment in Intensive Care Units and delivers early-warnings of imminent crises or instabilities. Such early warnings are based on sudden variations of patient complexity and, generally, precede crises or instabilities.

“While most conventional patient monitoring systems analyze vital signs on a one-by-one basis, our tool identifies and takes into account all possible channel interactions, combining them into one single systemic indicator of the patient’s state and dynamics”, said Dr. J. Marczyk, the founder of Ontonix. “We are grateful to our partners, the Warsaw-based Military Medicine Institute and with SAIC, for their collaboration in helping us deploy such an innovative and advanced tool” he added.

“Because of the immense complexity of the human body, and due to the limitations of conventional mathematics, medicine lacks a systems perspective. Today, thanks to our Quantitative Complexity Science and Technology, it is possible to see a patient as a system of interacting systems and to provide real-time measures of his complexity and stability. This new approach provides unprecedented insight into the dynamics of a patient and enables us to issue early-warnings in an ICU” he concluded.

Below, images of the App in a stable condition (left) and in case of early-warning (right). The vital signs at the top of the bar chart indicate which ones are responsible for the crisis or instability.

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For information on the MMI visit website

About SAIC

Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) is a premier technology integrator in the technical, engineering, intelligence, and enterprise information technology markets. SAIC has approximately 15,000 employees worldwide. For more information visit website.

Ontonix and SAIC Launch MPP version of OntoNet™

Como, 18-th September, 2019. Ontonix and SAIC, a company serving defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets, have developed a Massively Parallel Processing version of OntoNet™, the Quantitative Complexity Management tool by Ontonix.

“The MPP version of OntoNet™ will allow us to go way beyond the 1 million dimensions (variables) limit which the current scalar version has” said Dr. J. Marczyk, the founder and President of Ontonix. “We are now able not only to speed-up our analyses in a near-linear fashion as a function of number of computational cores - we are also able to process huge cases and solve the so-called Extreme Problems in contexts such as systemic supply chain analysis or large network and infrastructure monitoring and protection” he concluded.

The MPP version of OntoNet™ will be available for commercial applications at selected supercomputer centers.

About SAIC

Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) is a premier technology integrator in the technical, engineering, intelligence, and enterprise information technology markets. SAIC has approximately 15,000 employees worldwide. For more information visit website.

Ontonix Receives Contract from Banca Popolare di Sondrio

Como, May 21-st 2019. Ontonix, a company developing unique and exclusive solutions and services in Quantitative Complexity Management, announces a contract from the Banca Popolare di Sondrio for the annual renewal of the license of its software products as well as consulting services.


About Banca Popolare di Sondrio

Founded in 1871, the Banca Popolare di Sondrio is one of the first Italian cooperative banks that was inspired by the popular cooperative banking movement. Over time and thanks to the gradual expansion of it´s activities and presence on the territory, the bank gained more regional dimensions with the possibility of operating nationwide, while at the same time keeping strong ties to the zone of origin. The bank employs more than 2,500 persons, and has 300 branches. For more information visit website.

Ontonix Releases Fast Version of OntoNet™

Como, 22-nd February, 2019. Ontonix launches a fast version of its Quantitative Complexity Management engine OntoNet™ - the OntoNetS™ - for the analysis of very large systems and processes. OntoNetS™ features an approximate algorithm which reduces significantly memory usage as well as accelerates computation. For example, in the case of 5000 variables, the speed-up is 25, while with 10000 it is 32.

Only a Linux version is available.

“With similar runtime reduction we are now in the condition to tackle problems with thousands of variables even on a laptop” said Dr. J. Marczyk, the Founder and President of Ontonix. “OntoNetS™ open new possibilities in terms of real-time implementations such as monitoring of networks or IT systems” he added. “The approximate algorithm produces results that have a correlation of nearly 97% with the original one. The small difference is not only negligible, it is also irrelevant. In the spirit of L. Zadeh’s the Principle of Incompatibility, which states that high precision is incompatible with high complexity, highly complex systems, by their very nature, are never precise and cannot be studied with high precision. Therefore, a small loss of precision in the analysis of highly complex systems is perfectly tolerable” he concluded.

Ontonix Obtains Contract from SAIC

Como, 16-th November, 2018. Ontonix obtains from SAIC a contract for delivering software and engineering services in the field of counterfeit electronics detection using Quantitative Complexity Management technology. The engagement is part of a three-year project funded by the DoD and Naval Warfare Center. In the framework of the project, QCM technology will be incorporated into the Rapid Automated Component Evaluation (RACE) System under development by SAIC.

About SAIC

Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) is a premier technology integrator in the technical, engineering, intelligence, and enterprise information technology markets. SAIC has approximately 15,000 employees worldwide. For more information visit website.

Ontonix and the Carabinieri Sign Agreement

Como, 8-th November, 2018. Ontonix and the Carabinieri, the national law enforcement corps of Italy, have signed an agreement focusing on the complexity analysis of forest fires. The main objective of the collaboration is to increase the understanding of the dynamics of the phenomenon and to provide information useful towards its prevention.

The agreement has been signed in Rome by Carabinieri’s Lieutenant General A. Ricciardi and Mr. M. de Lucia, VP Aerospace and Defense, representing Ontonix.

“We are proud to collaborate with the Carabinieri”, said Dr. J. Marczyk, the Founder and President of Ontonix. “Our Quantitative Complexity Management has been applied in numerous contexts, helping understand the peculiarities and the dynamics of highly complex multi-disciplinary systems and contexts. We are looking forward to using our technology to help protect the ecosystem in our country” he concluded.

About the Carabinieri.

Founded in 1814, the Carabinieri are the national law enforcement corps of Italy who primarily carry out domestic policing duties with a dual role as a Police and Armed Force. Unlike the Polizia di Stato and Guardia di Finanza, Italy's other main law enforcement agencies, the Carabinieri are a military force. For more information visit website.