The session began with a welcome and introduction by Mateo Valero (BSC), one of the main drivers of this cooperation and a leading name in the field of HPC. This intervention was later complemented by Fabrizio Gagliardi (BSC). Afterward, Elsa Carvalho (INESC TEC) presented the work done in terms of communication by the RISC2 team, an important segment for all the news and achievements to reach all the partners and countries involved.

Carlos J. Barrios Hernandez then presented the work done within the HPC Observatory, a relevant source of information that European and Latin American research organizations can address with HPC and/or AI issues.

The session closed with an important and pertinent debate on how to strengthen cooperation in HPC between the European Union and Latin America, in which all participants contributed and gave their opinion, committing to efforts so that the work developed within the framework of RISC2 is continued.

What our partners had to say about the meeting?

Rafael Mayo Garcia, CIEMAT:

“The policy event organized by RISC2 in Brussels was of utmost importance for the development of HPC and digital capabilities for a shared infrastructure between EU and LAC. Even more, it has had crucial contributions to international entities such as CYTED, the Ibero-American Programme for the Development of Science and Technology. On the CIEMAT side, it has been a new step beyond for building and participating in a HPC shared ecosystem.”

Esteban Meneses, CeNAT:

“In Costa Rica, CeNAT plays a critical role in fostering technological change. To achieve that goal, it is fundamental to synchronize our efforts with other key players, particularly government institutions. The event policy in Brussels was a great opportunity to get closer to our science and technology ministry and start a dialogue on the importance of HPC, data science, and artificial intelligence for bringing about the societal changes we aim for.”

Esteban Mocskos, UBA:

“The Policy Event recently held in Brussels and organized by the RISC2 project had several remarkable points. The gathering of experts in HPC research and management in Latin America and Europe served to plan the next steps in the joint endeavor to deepen the collaboration in this field. The advance in management policies, application optimization, and user engagement are fundamental topics treated during the main sessions and also during the point-to-point talks in every corner of the meeting room.
I can say that this meeting will also spawn different paths in these collaboration efforts that we’ll surely see their results during the following years with a positive impact on both sides of this fruitful relationship: Latin America and Europe.”

Sergio Nesmachnow, Universidad de la República:

“The National Supercomputing Center (Uruguay) and Universidad de la República have led the development of HPC strategies and technologies and their application to relevant problems in Uruguay. Specific meetings such as the policy event organized by RISC2 in Brussels are key to present and disseminate the current developments and achievements to relevant political and technological leaders in our country, so that they gain knowledge about the usefulness of HPC technologies and infrastructure to foster the development of national scientific research in capital areas such as sustainability, energy, and social development. It was very important to present the network of collaborators in Latin America and Europe and to show the involvement of institutional and government agencies.

Within the contacts and talks during the organization of the meeting, we introduced the projecto to national authorities, including the National Director of Science and Technology, Ministry of Education and Culture, and the President of the National Agency for Research and Innovation, as well as the Uruguayan Agency for International Cooperation and academic authorities from all institutions involved in the National Supercomputing Center initiative. We hope the established contacts can result in productive joint efforts to foster the development of HPC and related scientific areas in our country and the region.”

Carla Osthoff, LNCC:

“In Brazil, LNCC is critical in providing High Performance Computing Resources for the Research Community and training Human Resources and fostering new technologies. The policy event organized by RISC2 in Brussels was fundamental to synchronizing LNCC efforts with other government institutions and international  entities. On the LNCC side, it has been a new step beyond building and participating in an HPC-shared ecosystem.

Specific meetings such as the policy event organized by RISC2 in Brussels  were very important to present the network of collaborators in Latin America and Europe and to show the involvement of institutional and government agencies.

As a result of joint activities in research and development in the areas of information and communication technologies (ICT), artificial intelligence, applied mathematics, and computational modelling, with emphasis on the areas of scientific computing and data science, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) have been signed between LNCC and Inria/France. As a  result of new joint activities, LNCC and INESC TEC/Portugal are starting  collaboration through INESC TEC International Visiting Researcher Programme 2023.”

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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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RISC2 are participating directly on:

ClusterUY Advanced Usage Tutorial

November 11, 2022

Santiago Iturriaga, UdelaR

Talk: Systems based on blockchain. Studying its behaviour as a distributed system: from emulation to simulation

December 8, 2022

Esteban Mocskos, CONICET

Message Passing Interface Tutorial

December 13, 2022

Sergio Nesmachnow, UdelaR

Course on “Fundamentals of urban informatics: data analysis and data processing”

December 12 – 16, 2022

Renzo Massobrio (Universidad de Cádiz),  Sergio Nesmachnow (UdelaR), and Sebastián Baña (New York University)

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Course on “Concepts and tools for solving multiobjective optimization problems”

December 12 – 20, 2022

Diego Rossit (Universidad Nacional del Sur), and Sergio Nesmachnow (UdelaR)

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The NLHPC staff  set their  fundamental pillar to focus  efforts on the scientific community and show HPC as an essential tool for country development by getting users from diverging scientific areas, industry and public sector. This entails breaking access barriers to this kind of technology. NLHPC faces this challenge by making training for the basic use of HPC  and scientific software optimization;  which is key in order to make a good use of resources.

The training was carried out within a framework of computational thinking, being the process by which an individual, through his professional experience and acquired knowledge, manages to face problems of different kinds. This could be evidenced in our active participation in the resolution of the proposed activities, which enhanced our abstraction and engineering thinking. We will certainly take this vision of education and collaborative work to our professional environment, in the different roles we play as HPC administrators, teachers and students.

The proper use of computing services involves efforts to perform monitoring, control and infrastructure management tasks. With the help of the tools reviewed during our visit, we will be able to provide our users with the highest standards of quality, security and accessibility.

The joint effort of the RISC2 and EU-CELAC ResInfra projects made it possible for engineers from Colombia, Mexico and Peru to participate in this HPC management course, learn about Chilean culture, gain knowledge and valuable contacts for our profession.

After living this great experience, we hope that in the near future other supercomputing centers replicate this type of initiatives in other parts of the world, thus increasing the communication bridges between HPC administrators from different places, sharing knowledge and experiences.

We are left with the milestone of being part of the First School of HPC Administrators of Latin America and the Caribbean, with experiences that made us grow in professional, academic, and human aspects. As well as with alliances among colleagues and now friends, a network of support as brothers of the same region.

We conclude by thanking Rafael Mayo of CIEMAT for the initiative; Ginés Guerrero, Pedro Schürmann, Eugenio Guerra, Pablo Flores, Angelo Guajardo, Esteban Osorio, José Morales for the knowledge and experiences shared; RISC2 and EU-CELAC ResInfra for providing us with this learning opportunity, supporting the scholarship grant.

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Miguel Angel Barrera Arbelaez, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia

Carlos Enrique Mosquera Trujillo, Centro de bioinformática y biología computacional de Colombia BIOS, Colombia

César Alexander Bernal Díaz, Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia.

Eduardo Romero Arzate, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México.

Ronald Darwin Apaza Veliz, Universidad Nacional de San Agustín, Perú.

Joel Gonzalez Lara, Centro de Análisis de Datos y Supercómputo, México

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In accordance with all of the above, it seems appropriate to consider the launch of coordination actions between both domains at both the European and Latin American levels to support the development of adjusted data models and simulation codes for energy thematic areas, while making use of the latest technology in HPC.

With different countries and regions in the world trying to win the race for the development of the most efficient Computing and Artificial Intelligence technology, it seems equally logical to support the development of high-performance computing research infrastructure. Scientific communities can now access the most powerful computing resources and use them to run simulations focused on energy challenges. Simulation enables planning and working towards tomorrow’s clean energy sources in a digital framework, greatly reducing prototyping costs and waste.

As examples, there are several fields in which the advances that the exploitation of digital methodologies (HPC jointly with data science and artificial intelligence) can bring will produce the resolution of more ambitious problems in the energy sector:

• Improvement in the exploitation of energy sources
  • Weather forecast or turbines in off-and on-shore wind energy
  • Design of new devices such as wind turbines, solar thermal plants, collectors, solid state batteries, etc
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis of heat transfer between solar radiation, materials, and fluids
• Design of advanced materials of energy interest
  • Materials for innovative batteries via accurate molecular dynamics and/or ab initio simulations to design and characterize at the atomic-scale new cathodes and electrolytes
  • Materials for photovoltaic devices via multiscale simulations where atomic-scale ab-initio simulations are combined with mesoscale approaches to design efficient energy harvesting devices
• Energy distribution
  • Integrated energy system analysis, optimization of the energy mix and smart grids fed with renewable energies, and further distribution in the electricity grid
  • Economic energy models
  • Smart meters and sensor deployment and further application to energy efficiency in buildings, smart cities, etc Exploitation on additional infrastructures such as fog/edge computing
  • New actors (prosumers) in a distributed electricity market, including energy systems integration

Behind all the previous items, there is a solid track of research that forms the foundations of this effort in reinforcing research on digital topics. Some examples are:

• Design of Digitalized Intelligent Energy Systems, for example, their application to cities in which zero-emissions buildings or intelligent power systems are pursued
• Deeper understanding of the physics behind the energy sources, for example, multiscale simulation or of the atmospheric flow for wind farm operation through CFD–RANS or LES simulation coupled to mesoscale models taking advantage of the capabilities offered by exascale computing
• New designs of Fluids Structure Interactions (FSI), for example, for full rotor simulations coupled to Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations. Structural dynamics (fatigue) in different devices
• Optimization of codes by the means of new mathematical kernels, not simply computational porting
• Integration of different computing platforms seamlessly combining HPC, HTC, and High-Performance Data Analytics methodologies

Moreover, the advanced modeling of energy systems is allowed thanks to the tight synergy with other disciplines from mathematics to computer science, from data science to numerical analysis. Among the other high-end modeling requires:

• Data Science, as handlina g large volume of data is key to energy-focused HPC and HTC simulations and data-driven workflow
• Designs customized machine and deep learning techniques for improved artificial intelligence approaches
• Efficient implementation of digital platforms, their interconnections and interoperability

By CIEMAT

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