Workshop on HPC collaboration between Europe and Latin America

International collaborations play a critical road in our path to achieve exascale computing. This is true for all regions, including North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America as well. All of this regions have instantiated multiple collaborations to develop software and investigate new research directions in order to push the boundaries of extreme scale computing. Most of those collaborations have achieved goals that could not be reached by a single research group alone. 

Europe is one of the regions that has developed the most important collaborations with research institutions in Latin America. For many years, Europe and Latin America have been developing joint projects in HPC and data intensive applications. Projects such as EELA, RISC, OPENBIO, among others, had a clear impact in the academic community and industry. In addition, the fruit of those collaborations had helped to develop the infrastructure and computing facilities in Latin America, sparkling a flame of interest among young undergrad and graduate students. It is important to continue those research exchanges in order to perpetuate the list of achievements that they have been producing in the last years.

With this objective in mind, researchers from Europe and Latin America will be hosting the Workshop on HPC collaboration between Europe and Latin America at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC). The workshop will take place the Thursday 16th July 2015 at the Marriott Hotel Frankfurt in Germany. The talks are divided in three main topics : Research and Academic Collaboration, Training Collaboration, and Industrial Collaboration.

The schedule of the workshop is as follows:

• 9 00 - 9:10 Welcome (Carlos J. Barrios, SCALAC-UIS)
• 9:10 - 9:30 EU/LatAm Collaboration Networks (Salma Jaliffe, SCALAC-CUDI)
• 9:30 - 10:00 Sustainable ultrascale computing: a challenge for research (Jesus Carretero, NESUS Network)
• 10:00 - 10:30 EU-LA collaboration on HPC and HTC through Frameworks Programs (Rafael Mayo, CIEMAT)
• 10:30 - 11:00 RISC: towards a stable EU-LATAM scientific cooperation on HPC (Ulises Cortes, BSC-CNS)
• 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
• 11:30 - 11:45 EU/LatAm Academic and Research Collaboration Proposals (Alvaro de la Ossa, SCALAC-UCR)
• 11:45 - 12:15 The joint SISSA/ICTP master in HPC: an opportunity to create a new class of HPC professionals between Europe and Latin America (Stefano Cozzini, SISSA-Democritos-ICTP)
• 12:15 - 12:45 High Performance Computing for Geophysics Applications Overview and results of HPC GA (FP7 IRSES 2011-2014) (Jean-François Mehaut, UJF)
• 12:45 - 13:15 HPC on societal challenges to enhance EU-LAC cooperation (Yolanda Ursa, EU-INMARK)
• 13:15 - 14:00 Lunch
• 14:00 - 14:15 EU/LatAM Research, Development and Innovation Partnership (Renato Miceli, FIEB-SENAMI)
• 14:15 - 14:45 eXtended Discrete Element Method: overview, applications and perspectives (Xavier Besseron, University of Luxembourg) 
• 14:45 - 15:15 High performance computing and data management driven by highly demanding applications (Philippe Navaux, SCALAC-UFRGS) 
• 15:15 - 15:30 Bringing our Center for Excellence in Parallel Programming to Latin America (Rafael Escovar, Bull Atos Group)
• 15:20 - 15:30 Experiences and capacities of Colombian Universities for HPC Innovation (Harold Castro, UNIANDES – SCAD_Colombia)
• 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
• 16:30 - 17:00 On some projects being developed at ABACUS the Center for Applied Mathematics and High Performance Computing of the Center for Research and Advanced Studies of IPN (Cinvestav) in Mexico: collaboration a key for success (Isidoro Gitler, SCALAC-ABACUS-CINVESTAV)
• 17:00 - 17:45 Final Panel: Next Steps for the EU/LatAm Collaboration: 2015 – 2020 (Conducted by Philippe Navaux, SCALAC-UFRGS)
• 17:45 - 18:00 Close and Conclusions

If you plan to attend ISC2015, don't miss this opportunity to participate in the workshop and be part of the collaboration between Europe and Latin America. Remember that you need to register at the conference to participate in the workshop.

Update: Schedule updated.