By:

Carneiro, B. Fagundes, C. Osthoff, G. Freire, K. Ocaña, L. Cruz, L. Gadelha, M. Coelho, M. Galheigo, and R. Terra are with the National Laboratory of Scientific Computing, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Carvalho is with the Federal Center for Technological Education Celso Suckow da Fonseca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Douglas Cardoso is with the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar, Portugal.

Boito and L, Teylo is with the University of Bordeaux, CNRS, Bordeaux INP, INRIA, LaBRI, Talence, France.

Navaux is with the Informatics Institute, the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, and Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

References:

Ocaña, K. A. C. S.; Galheigo, M.; Osthoff, C.; Gadelha, L. M. R.; Porto, F.; Gomes, A. T. A.; Oliveira, D.; Vasconcelos, A. T. BioinfoPortal: A scientific gateway for integrating bioinformatics applications on the Brazilian national high-performance computing network. Future Generation Computer Systems, v. 107, p. 192-214, 2020.

Mondelli, M. L.; Magalhães, T.; Loss, G.; Wilde, M.; Foster, I.; Mattoso, M. L. Q.; Katz, D. S.; Barbosa, H. J. C.; Vasconcelos, A. T. R.; Ocaña, K. A. C. S; Gadelha, L. BioWorkbench: A High-Performance Framework for Managing and Analyzing Bioinformatics Experiments. PeerJ, v. 1, p. 1, 2018.

Coelho, M.; Freire, G.; Ocaña, K.; Osthoff, C.; Galheigo, M.; Carneiro, A. R.; Boito, F.; Navaux, P.; Cardoso, D. O. Desenvolvimento de um Framework de Aprendizado de Máquina no Apoio a Gateways Científicos Verdes, Inteligentes e Eficientes: BioinfoPortal como Caso de Estudo Brasileiro In: XXIII Simpósio em Sistemas Computacionais de Alto Desempenho – WSCAD 2022 (https://wscad.ufsc.br/), 2022.

Terra, R.; Ocaña, K.; Osthoff, C.; Cruz, L.; Boito, F.; Navaux, P.; Carvalho, D. Framework para a Construção de Redes Filogenéticas em Ambiente de Computação de Alto Desempenho. In: XXIII Simpósio em Sistemas Computacionais de Alto Desempenho – WSCAD 2022 (https://wscad.ufsc.br/), 2022.

Ocaña, K.; Cruz, L.; Coelho, M.; Terra, R.; Galheigo, M.; Carneiro, A.; Carvalho, D.; Gadelha, L.; Boito, F.; Navaux, P.; Osthoff, C. ParslRNA-Seq: an efficient and scalable RNAseq analysis workflow for studies of differentiated gene expression. In: Latin America High-Performance Computing Conference (CARLA), 2022, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Proceedings of the Latin American High-Performance Computing Conference – CARLA 2022 (http://www.carla22.org/), 2022.

^[1] https://bioinfo.lncc.br/

^[2] https://git.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/csbase-dev/csgrid/-/tree/CSGRID-2.3-LNCC

^[3] https://https://sdumont.lncc.br

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The Call for High Performance Computing (HPC) Centers aims to support the acquisition of high performance computing equipment that can provide computational infrastructure to conduct research in all areas of knowledge that are intensive in computing resources. The resources necessary for the development of the infrastructure of the facilities to receive the high performance computing equipment are considered to be the responsibility of the proponent institutions and constitute the required counterpart for the presentation of the proposal. In addition, proposers must demonstrate a proven track record as an HPC center.

This program has the nature of creating infrastructure and is not intended to provide conventional funding for research projects that will eventually take advantage of the infrastructure supported here, and the support for the realization of such research projects should be sought in the lines of funding for research.

A portion of the maintenance costs of the equipment to be purchased may be requested in this Call. However, it is expected that proposals submitted to this Call will also propose other ways to cover equipment maintenance costs. No funds may be requested to cover costs for the maintenance of the building infrastructure and support for computer equipment, such as air conditioning and the like, which should be covered by funds contributed by the proponent institutions or from other sources. Furthermore, the costs of salaries and other charges related to the support staff that this Call for Proposals foresees should be available for the operation of the center cannot be requested in the proposals submitted to this Call for Proposals and are the sole responsibility of the proposing institutions. The proponents may foresee, in their business plan, charging for the provision of the services, provided that some level of gratuity is offered to users from academic institutions.

WHO?

This Call is open to Education or Research Institutions from all over Brazil, consortium or not, to support 1 center in the state of São Paulo and 1 or 2 centers in other Brazilian states, in a total amount of up to R$ 100 million. The center based in São Paulo may receive, in this Call, resources of up to R$ 50 million, and must meet the demand for high performance computing services within the entire state of São Paulo. The centers located in other states may receive resources of up to R$ 25 million, in the case of non-consortium projects, or up to R$ 50 million in the case of a consortium of several institutions that meet the demand for high performance computing services nationwide.

This Call is launched in the scope of FAPESP’s Multiuser Equipment Program – EMU and has an infra-structural nature.

Know more about this call here. 

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CARLA is an international conference aimed at providing a forum to foster the growth and strength of the High-Performance Computing (HPC) community in Latin America through the exchange and dissemination of new ideas, techniques, and research in HPC and its applications areas. The general chair of the 2021 edition is Isidoro Gitler, from Cinvestav, who coordinates and participates in all the event’s activities.

Workshops

Different partners of the RISC2 were involved in the organization of the scientific workshops as part of the CARLA 2021 conference. Between seven workshops organized to this conference, two of them are from the RISC2 consortium. The workshop on HPC Collaboration between Europe and Latin America took place online, on October 5, 2021. The goal was to provide a space dedicated to exchange experiences, towards the promotion and support of new collaborations across different countries of Europe and Latin America, within the framework of the recently launched ‘A network for supporting the coordination of High-Performance Computing research between Europe and Latin America’ (RISC2). This workshop achieved a maximum number of 55 participants, with Pedro Vieira Alberto, from the University of Coimbra, as one of the Invited Speakers. Ulisses Cortés, from Barcelona Supercomputing Center, presented the RISC2 project, as an example of HPC collaboration between Europe and Latin America. The chairs of this event were Ulisses Cortés and Rafael Mayo-García, from CIEMAT.

Another workshop organized by the RISC2 team was the workshop on HPC an Energy, which was held online on October 4, with Álvaro Coutinho, from COPPE, as Chair. This workshop focused on HPC techniques applied to the energy sector, in order to improve and reform many industrial sectors. HPC can provide several solutions to the energy sector, e.g., oil and gas solutions in upstream, midstream, and downstream problems; improve wind energy performance; solve issues of combustion efficiency for transportation systems; making nuclear systems more efficient and safer; improving solar energy systems; optimizing wind energy systems; improving the quality and efficiency of seismic and geophysical simulations, etc.

It is important to mention that Ginés Guerrero, from NLHPC, was one of the chairs of workshops organized by CARLA 2021.

Tutorials

Carla Osthoff, from Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica, was Tutorial Chair Member of the 11 tutorials that were accepted at the CARLA 2021. CARLA 2021 provided tutorials and hands-on workshops for both introductory and advanced levels, specifically designed to undergraduate and master students all over Latin- American countries. There were two different periods: Fundamental Tutorials, which included six different tutorials the week before CARLA 2021, and Advanced Tutorials, with five different tutorials held a week after CARLA 2021. CARLA 2021 Tutorials were supported by Latin American, Caribbean, and European institutions.
Esteban Mosckos, from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, was involved in the organization of two different tutorials: “OpenMP: Introduction to shared memory models” and “Introduction to Distributed Memory Models using MPI”. Both activities consisted of theory and hands-on exercises, lasting four hours, with close to 40 assistants each.

The NLHPC partner was also responsible for a tutorial focused on Working with a resource manager on an HPC infrastructure, for the use of SLURM. Two more tutorials were organized by NLHPC, including, the tutorial on Performance Analysis Tools, with the participation of one of the members of the NLHPC Scientific Committee, and the other on Quantum Computing, with the participation of IBM.

The CARLA 2021 conference had more than 30 institutions on the board committee and more than 115 in attendance, connected simultaneously.

All the videos are available here.

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