Given the nature of the project, RISC2 could not fail to be represented through its partners and with a strong presence in the event’s program. Carlos J. Barrios, researcher from the Universidad Industrial de Santander and RISC2 partner was responsible for opening CARLA, with his address setting the tone for the conference, emphasizing the importance of collaborative efforts and knowledge sharing in furthering the frontiers of HPC.

Fabrizio Gagliardi, the coordinator of RISC2, also took center stage with a special talk that introduced the audience to the mission and objectives of the RISC2 project. The presentation shed light on the pivotal role that RISC2 plays in advancing HPC research and development of the cooperation between the two continents in this field. Gagliardi participated in the EuroHPCLatam panel: Policy and Global Actions, which included representatives from Red Clara, CAF and the Ministry of CyT Colombia. This panel explored the policies and global actions required to propel HPC forward in Latin America, emphasizing collaboration between key stakeholders.

Another highlight of CARLA 2023 was the tribute to Mateo Valero, one of the promoters of RISC2. Valero’s dedication and contributions to the field were celebrated through an award with his name and one he was the first recepient, underscoring the lasting impact of his work on the entire HPC community.

This event was particularly important as it coincided with the end of the RISC2 project and the presentation of its results. Over the course of three years, the initiative has strengthened contacts and promoted the exchange of knowledge between researchers from Latin America and Europe through the organization of nine webinars, the support of several schools, workshops, and other training events in the field for young students and researchers. During this period, RISC2 partners also participated in several conferences and ceremonies with policymakers to raise awareness of the importance of continuing to support and prioritize this area of research in the future.

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Last month, students from the field of Computer Sciences, Engineering and others related to HPC (Physics & Material Sciences, Biology/Bioinformatics, Finance, etc), gathered for six days in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, for the SC-Camp, where they had the chance to learn more about Super Computing and Distributed Systems. The week was filled with courses with focus on practical sessions, keynotes and a collaborative project.

As such, the aim of the SC-Camp was to give undergraduate and master students state-of-the-art lectures and programming practical sessions about High Performance and Distributed Computing topics.

SC-Camp is an itinerant school, which means that every year t will take HPC knowledge to a different place. This was the first time, since the Covid-19 pandemic, the SC-Camp took place in person.

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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.

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LNCC, represented by Carla Osthoff, Kary Ocaña and Ana Karl, presented theoretical and practical courses in Bioinformatics, HPC, Mathematical and Chemical Computing.

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It is a comprehensive school of High Performance Computing (HPC), new computing architectures and large volumes of data processing. The simultaneous realization of five tracks aim at different training and needs of undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as cluster administrators.

This school hopes to provide this scope of diffusion and approach to users and administrators of HPC equipment in the country. They plan to give specific technical courses for each audience and common activities that promote interaction between them.

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The School aimed to provide mini-courses and talks related to programming on high-performance computers, such as parallel programming models, profiling tools, and libraries for developing optimized parallel algorithms for the SDumont user community and the high-performance computing programming community.

Due to the extensive territory of Brazil and the number of research projects, it is mandatory to provide regular HPC schools for the research community. According to Carla Osthoff, one of the organizers of this school, “SDumont is the only Brazilian supercomputer dedicated to the research community that is part of the TOP 500 list. The Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology offers free access to all Brazilian research projects in the country and foreign collaborators. Currently, we have 238 research projects from 18 research areas.  This edition of the School received 350 registrations, but we also provided online YouTube access to the community.”

The event happened remotely, and all the sessions are available on Youtube.

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The RISC2 partners which participed as keynote speakers on the event were Santiago Iturriaga, with a talk about “ClusterUY Advanced Usage Tutorial”, Esteban Mocskos, with a presentation about “Systems based on blockchain. Studying its behavior as a distributed system: from emulation to simulation”, and Sergio Nesmachnow, with a talk about “Message Passing Interface Tutorial”.

According to Esteban Mocskos, this seminar was very relevant for the RISC2 project as “it is one step to consolidate the HPC network in Latin America (damaged by COVID) and collaborate to the success of future activities”.

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The school aims to provide the SDumont user community and the high performance computing programming community in general with mini-courses related to programming on high performance computers such as parallel programming models, profiling tools and libraries for the development of optimized parallel algorithms.

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In the European and Latin American (EuroLatAm) HPC ecosystems, it tis possible to identify actors in different domains: industry, academy, research, society, and government. Each of them, at different levels, has a group of demands or interactions, depending on the interests. I.e., the industry demands capabilities to have HPC solutions for productivity and wants skills from the academy to perform development actors to build applications to use solutions. Another example could be the relationship between research and the government. In the HPC Ecosystem, collaborations allow synergies to face common interests. Still, it demands policies and coordinated roadmaps to support long-term projects and activities with a clear impact on society.

Of course, a historical relationship exists between Latin America and Europe from colonial history. In the case of advanced computing projects, it is possible to identify, from the first EuroLatAm Grid Computing projects more than twenty years ago until the real supercomputing projects such as RISC and RISC2. Still, now, more with shared interests and the different EuroLatAm HPC projects improve competitiveness and collaboration. Competitiveness for industrial and productive business, partnership (and competitiveness) in science and education goals, and human wellness. So paraphrasing Mateo Valero “who does not compute does not compete”, I would add “who does not collaborate does not survive”.

Taking collaboration and competitiveness, the RISC2 project allows identifying sustainability elements and sustainable workflows for different projects. The impressive interaction between the actors of the HPC EuroLatAm ecosystem has not only given scientific results but also policies, recommendations, best practices, and new questions. For these outcomes, in the past 2022 Supercomputing Conference, RISC2 was awarded the 2022 HPCWire Editors’ Choice Award as the Best HPC Collaboration.

Sustainable advanced computing ecosystems and their growth are evident with the knowledge of the results of projects such as RISC2. Collaboration, interaction, and competitiveness build human development and guarantee development, technological diversification, and peer-to-peer relationships to attack common interests and problems. So, RISC2 is a crucial step to advance to a RISC3 as it was at the time of the previous RISC.

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