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.

By Universidad Industrial de Santander

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Our partners Carlos Barrios Hernandez (from Industrial University of Santander) and Esteban Meneses (from Costa Rica National High Technology Center) participated directly on the “Americas HPC Collaboration” session, on November 16, which aimed to showcase opportunities and experiences between different HPC networks. On this session, Philippe Navaux (from UFRGS and SCALAC) presented the RISC2 project.

It was also during the conference that RISC2 was honoured with the HPCwire Editors’ Choice Award for “Best HPC Collaboration (Academia/Government/Industry)” 2022.

The partners representing RISC2 were Fabrizio Gagliardi (from Barcelona Supercomputing Center), Rui Oliveira (from INESC TEC), Bernd Mohr (from Jülich Supercomputing Centre), Carlos Barrios Hernandez (from Industrial University of Santander), Esteban Meneses (from Costa Rica National High Technology Center), Pedro Alberto (From University of Coimbra), and Philippe Navaux (from UFRGS and SCALAC).

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Fabrizio Gagliardi, director of the RISC2, says “I feel particularly honored by this recognition on behalf of all the project members who have worked so hard to achieve in such a short time, and with limited resources, a considerable impact in promoting HPC activities in Latin America in collaboration with Europe”.

Editors’ Choice: Best HPC Collaboration (Academia/Government/Industry)

The RISC2 project, following the RISC2 Project, aims to promote and improve the relationship between research and industrial communities, focusing on HPC application and infrastructure deployment, between Europe and Latin America. Led by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), RISC2 brings together 16 partners from 12 different countries.

About the HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards

The list of winners was revealed at the SC22 HPCwire booth and on the HPCwire website.

The coveted annual HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards are determined through a nomination and voting process with the global HPCwire community, a well a selections from the HPCwire editors. The awards are an annual feature of the publication and constitute prestigious recognition from the HPC community . They are revealed each year too kick off the annual supercomputing conference, which showcases high performance computing, networking, storage, and data analysis.

“The 2022 Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards are exceptional, indeed. Solutions developed with HPC led the world out of the Pandemic, and we officially broke the Exascale threshold – HPC has now reached a billion, billion operations per second!” said Tom Tabor, CEO of Tabor Communications, publishers of HPCwire. “Between our worldwide readership of HPC experts and the most renowned panel of editors in the industry, the Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards represent resounding recognition of HPC accomplishments throughout the world. Our sincerest gratitude and hearty congratulations go out to all of the winners.”

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