RISC2 supported the ‘HPC, Data & Architecture Week’, which took place between March 13 and 17, 2023, in Buenos Aires. This initiative aimed to recover and deepen the training of human resources for the development of scientific applications and their efficient use in parallel computing environments.
This event had four main courses: “Foundations of Parallel Programming”, “Large scale data processing and machine learning”, “New architectures and specific computing platforms”, and “Administrations techniques for large-scale computing facilities”.
More than 100 students actively participated in the event who traveled from different part of the country. 30 students received financial support to participate (traveling and living) provided by the National HPC System (SNCAD) dependent of the Argentina’s Ministry of Science.
Esteban Mocskos, one of the organizers of the event, believes “this kind of events should be organized regularly to sustain the flux of students in the area of HPC”. In his opinion, “a lot of students from Argentina get their first contact with HPC topics. As such a large country, impacting a distant region also means impacting the neighboring countries. Those students will bring their experience to other students in their places”. According to Mocskos, initiatives like the “HPC, Data & Architecture Week” spark a lot of collaborations.