Over 70 young minds gathered and camped at the Super Computing and Distributed Computing Camp (SC-Camp) this year. The event was hosted by the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Center (BIOS) located at the Natural Park Los Yarumos, in Manizales, Colombia. The Natural Park Los Yarumos is located in the Colombian Coffee Growing Axis (also known as the Coffee Triangle) which produces the majority of the world-famous Colombian Coffee. Speakers from USA, Brazil and Venezuela gave state-of-the-art talks in various domains including parallel computing and computational science. Students from 9 Colombian universities had the opportunity to learn cutting-edge technologies and made new friendships that can lead to future research collaborations.
The event was strongly supported by important industry actors such as Intel, Hewlett Packard and Microsoft. Representatives from these companies presented to the young generation, new high performance technologies that they are developing and pushing into the market. “It is very exiting to have the opportunity to approach the new players in the programming world, one can feel this very good energy, the capacity and desire to learn.” said Hugues Hugo Morin from Intel.
For the students, it was a memorable experience. “I leave SC-Camp with new friends and more knowledge, this was the first step for something big.” said Julian Hernando Henao, participant from the University of Caldas. “I had the opportunity to learn new methodologies in topics related to computer science, parallel programming and big data, opening several exploratory directions where one can develop new research.” said Maria Alejandra Munoz, participant of the National University of Colombia in Manizales. For many of them, the experience of SC-Camp will continue, as they develop collaborations in new topics of research relevant to their careers and the local needs of their community.
For BIOS, it was a great honor to host SC-Camp, which gained national interest as large Colombian media groups diffused the news about the event and the support of the local authorities for such initiatives. It is important to keep promoting these types of activities in order to pave the way for the future generation of professionals in high performance computing, so that they can have a strong positive impact in the region, the country and hopefully in the world.
The event was strongly supported by important industry actors such as Intel, Hewlett Packard and Microsoft. Representatives from these companies presented to the young generation, new high performance technologies that they are developing and pushing into the market. “It is very exiting to have the opportunity to approach the new players in the programming world, one can feel this very good energy, the capacity and desire to learn.” said Hugues Hugo Morin from Intel.
For the students, it was a memorable experience. “I leave SC-Camp with new friends and more knowledge, this was the first step for something big.” said Julian Hernando Henao, participant from the University of Caldas. “I had the opportunity to learn new methodologies in topics related to computer science, parallel programming and big data, opening several exploratory directions where one can develop new research.” said Maria Alejandra Munoz, participant of the National University of Colombia in Manizales. For many of them, the experience of SC-Camp will continue, as they develop collaborations in new topics of research relevant to their careers and the local needs of their community.
For BIOS, it was a great honor to host SC-Camp, which gained national interest as large Colombian media groups diffused the news about the event and the support of the local authorities for such initiatives. It is important to keep promoting these types of activities in order to pave the way for the future generation of professionals in high performance computing, so that they can have a strong positive impact in the region, the country and hopefully in the world.
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