“The RISC2 project has proven to be a team effort in which European and Latin American partners worked together to drive HPC collaboration forward. We have been able to create a lively and active community across the Atlantic to stimulate dialogue and boost cooperation that won’t die with RISC2’s formal end”, says Fabrizio Gagliardi, manager director of RISC2.

Since 2021, this knowledge-sharing network has organised webinars, summer schools, meetings with policymakers and participated in conferences and dissemination events on both sides of the Atlantic. The project also resulted in the HPC Observatory Repository — a collection of documents and training materials produced as part of the project – and the White Paper on HPC R&I Collaboration Opportunities, a document that reviews the key socio-economic and environmental factors and trends that influence HPC needs.

These were two of the issues highlighted by European Commission officials and experts during the final evaluation of the project, which could provide continuity to the work carried out by the consortium over the last three years, in line with the wishes of the partners and the advice of the evaluators. “Beyond RISC2, we should keep the momentum and leverage the importance of Latin America in the frame of the Green Deal actions: HPC stakeholders should encourage policymakers to build bilateral agreements and offer open calls focused on HPC collaboration“, reflects Fabrizio Gagliardi.

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The RISC2 project was also represented, having made it possible, through monetary support, for some students from Latin America to take part – thus continuing its work in the social field. In total, 60 students from 25 different nationalities took part in the initiative.

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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 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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The RISC2 project supported the participation of five Latin American students, boosting the exchange of experience and knowledge between Europe and Latin America on the HPC fields. After the Summer School, the students whose participation supported by RISC2 wrote on a blog post: “We have brought home a new vision of the world of computing, new contacts, and many new perspectives that we can apply in our studies and share with our colleagues in the research groups and, perhaps, start a new foci of study”.

Distinguished scientists in the HPC field gave lectures and tutorials addressing architecture, software stack and applications for HPC and AI, invited talks, a panel on The Future of HPC and a final keynote by Prof Mateo Valero. On the last day of the week, the ACM School merged with MATEO2022 (“Multicore Architectures and Their Effective Operation 2022”), attended by world-class experts in computer architecture in the HPC field.

The ACM Europe Summer School joined 50 participants, from 28 different countries, from young computer science researchers and engineers, outstanding MSC students, and senior undergraduate students.

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The BCS-CNS hosted the ACM Summer School 2022. From 29 August to 2 September 2022, students, researchers, and professors from all over the world gathered to discuss High-Performance Computing (HPC), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning.

The RISC2 project supported the participation of Latin American students. We had the opportunity to travel from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Costa Rica to connect with leading researchers in HPC at the ACM Summer School and boost our professional careers. For some of us, it was our first time in Europe. For others, it was the first time we had the chance to visit a research centre that hosts a TOP500 supercomputer such as Mare Nostrum. We shared our latent curiosity to learn, meet, and relate to people from all over the world.

We were welcomed to the ACM School by a legend in the world of HPC, Professor Mateo Valero, director of the BSC. World-class lecturers and researchers introduced us to topics that we had only read about in scientific articles, like specialized processors for machine learning, neuromorphic engineering, technical software development for new architectures, and vector accelerators. We could delve into the state-of-the-art of many lines of study, opening our minds in countless ways. We faced new challenges and found new perspectives that would allow us to advance our research projects and complete our graduate degrees.

Throughout the week, we met colleagues from all over the world with different lines of research, projects, and fields of study. This opportunity allowed us to create new relationships, nurtured us at a cultural level, and built new ties of friendship and possible professional contributions in the future, connecting Europe with Latin America. Likewise, we strengthened relations between Latin Americans, usually separated despite being neighbours. Conversations that initially arose with academic topics ended with more trivial issues, all accompanied by a cup of coffee or even a mate brought directly from Argentina. These conversations go hand in hand with great minds and unique people.

Professors like Valerie Taylor from the Argonne National Laboratory, Charlotte Frenkel from the Delft University of Technology, Luca Benini from the Università di Bologna and ETHZ, and Jordi Torres from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, among many others, allowed us to be part of a world that, in many cases, is hard to reach for many students in Latin America. Thanks to the RISC2 project, we had the opportunity to be part of this process, learn and bring back to our countries the knowledge about state of the art in HPC architectural trends and a new vision of the world of computing.

At the end of an intense week of study and conversations, of new knowledge and new friends, we returned to our countries of origin. Together, we have brought a new vision of the world of computing, new contacts, and many new perspectives that we can apply in our studies and share with our colleagues in the research groups and, perhaps, start new foci of study.

Finally, we hope to return and meet again, make new friends, share the knowledge acquired and our experiences, and further deepen the ties within Latin America and between Europe and Latin America. We hope that other fellow Latin Americans will also benefit from similar opportunities and that they can live these kinds of experiences. The RISC2 project gave us a unique opportunity, so we want to thank them and all of those who made it possible.

By:

• Claudio Aracena, University of Chile
• Christian Asch, CeNAT, Costa Rica
• Luis Alejandro Torres Niño, UIS, Colombia
• Matías Mazzanti, UBA, Argentina
• Matheus Borges Seidel, UFRJ, Brazil

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