CLCAR 2012 hosts Parallel Workshops to L. A. Needs Using HPC and Grid Computing

Prof. Mateo Valero (BSC-Spain) during the MesoAmerica Project Workshop

CLCAR 2012 hosts parallel workshops to treat Regional Interests and project future interactions using high performance computing resources linked by Grid Computing.

One of the parallel workshops is the MesoAmerica Project workshop. The meeting is led by Luis Nuñez, responsible of Academic Communities of the RedCLARA, the Latinamerican advanced and academic network consortium.

The project, from the high performance and Grid Computing point of view, reach to provide infrastructure and computer resources to receive, transfer, treat and store climatological and geophysics data to use for early warning systems, national weather systems, from Mexico to Ecuador. 

Some Latin American supercomputer and research centres from Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador and Argentina participate in the project. But also, European partners from France and Spain, as is the case of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center directed by Prof. Mateo Valero.

CLCAR 2012 begins with Grid and Hybrid Computing Tutorials

Pierre Neyron, CNRS-Engineer during the Grid'5000 Tutorial

CLCAR 2012 version, the Latin American Conference on High Performance Computing start with the tutorial sessions. This year in Panama City, Panama, organizers offer two important tutorials: "Grid Computing from Grid'5000", supported by the French wide e-infrastructure project Grid'5000-Aladdin and, "NVIDIA CUDA for Beginners" supported by NVIDIA.

The first one tutorial is led by Pierre Neyron, Engineer of the CNRS (Centre Nationale de Recherche Scientifique), the National Centre for Scientific Research in France. Pierre is based in Grenoble and he is one of the responsible for the development and action of Grid'5000-Aladdin. The interest of Grid'5000-Aladdin project to support the tutorial is to help the creation of cyber-structures for scientific research in computer science and informatics.

Monica Hernandez, SC3-UIS Engineer during the NVIDIA CUDA Beginners Tutorial

The second tutorial, "NVIDIA CUDA for beginners" is a tutorial offer for everyone interested in exploit hybrid architectures. Monica Hernandez, young engineer responsible of development and support to users of the High Performance and Scientific Computing Unit of the Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia, manages the tutorial. 

The tutorial is sponsored by NVIDIA, in the context of the NVIDIA Teaching Academic Program and during the tutorial, participants use GUANE-1, the most powerful supercomputer in Colombia today, based in GPUs of the Universidad Industrial de Santander under the responsibility of  the High Performance and Scientific Computing Unit at Bucaramanga.

Call for Tutorials for Latin American Conference on High Performance Computing 2012

Since 2007, the Latin-American Conference on High Performance Computing (CLCAR) is an event for students, scientists and researchers in the areas of high performance computing, high throughput computing, parallel and distributed systems, e-science and applications, in a global context, but with special scope in latinoamerican propositions.

It is the goal of the 2012 program committee to offer conference attendees and local participants a stimulating and informative selection of tutorials about current topics of CLCAR Interests.

Experts and researchers from different countries and related domains form the program and scientific committees of CLCAR 2012. Competent people from various countries and institutes will carry out the process of evaluating the proposals of tutorials. CLCAR 2012 to be held in Ciudad de Panama, Panama, in August 27-31. 

CLCAR 2012 official languages are English, Portuguese and Spanish.

Selected tutorials will be presented in a half-day tutorial (4 hours) or full day (8 hours) addressed to 15-20 participants.

Proposals can be submitted in ENGLISH, PORTUGUESE or SPANISH only. The oral presentation of the tutorial may be in any CLCAR official language, but the slides will be in English anyway.

Topics of Interest:

The topics of interest for CLCAR include, but are not limited to:

1.              Platforms and Infrastructures

◦                                  Scalable Architectures

◦                                  Parallel and Distributed Architectures

◦                                  Cluster Computing

◦                                  Grid Computing

▪                                                    Testbed Grid

▪                                                    Lightweight Grids

▪                                                    Desktop Grid Computing

▪                                                    Production Grids

◦                                  High Performance Networks to Science and Technology

◦                                  Cloud Computing

◦                                  P2P

◦                                  Embedded High Performance Computing and Systems

◦                                  Virtualization in Scalable and Pervasive Computing

◦                                  HPC Green Computing

◦                                  Collaborative Computing

◦                                  High Density Computing

2.              e-Science and Applications

◦                                  Applications for science and technology

◦                                  Industrial and business applications

◦                                  Health Applications and Solutions

◦                                  Learning and Educational applications

◦                                  Grid Services

◦                                  Program Languages and Paradigms

◦                                  Simulation

◦                                  Modelling

◦                                  Cloud Services

3.              Special Topics

◦                                  Performance Evaluation of High Performance, Distributed and Scalable Systems

◦                                  Fault Tolerance

◦                                  Semantic Grid

◦                                  Games Theory

◦                                  Optimization

◦                                  Security

◦                                  Economy Grid

◦                                  Green Computing

Tutorial Format

Proposals  should be submitted in PDF with the next important information:

1.     ·  Title of the tutorial

2.     ·  Instructor and their credentials (CV)

3.     ·  Aims/Learning objectives

4.     ·  Description of topics

5.     ·  Scope of the tutorial

6.     ·  Tutorial history (previous offerings of tutorial, if any)

7.     ·  Format of tutorial (1/2 day, 1 day)

8.     ·  300 Word Abstract (1-2 paragraphs suitable for inclusion in conference registration materials)

9.     ·  Keywords

10.  ·  Full description (1-2 pages to be used for evaluation)

11.  ·  Target Audience Information

12.  ·  Prerequisite knowledge of audience

13.  ·  Relevant references that would support proposal evaluation

Instructors of selected tutorials will be held in Panama City, with inscription and hotel expenses paid by CLCAR 2012 Conference.

Important Dates

•                Submissions:

◦                                  Open March 26 /2012

◦                                  Deadline for Full Paper Proposal: May 5 /2012

◦                                  Notification of Acceptance: June 1 /2012

•                Conference:

◦                                  August 27-31 (Tutorials 27-28)

Submissions: http://www.clcar.org

More information in Spanish, Portuguese or English:

cjbarrioshernandez@acm.org

nicolas@inf.ufrgs.br

gilberto@ula.ve