Supercomputing and Distributed Systems Camping School 2014, Now in the Coffee Land!

In a spectacular and natural environment, in the heart of the coffee land in Colombia, researchers and students will be held in the 2014 version of the Supercomputing and Distributed Systems Camp 2014. 

Inspired by the idea to meet technology and nature, SC-Camp is an initiative of researchers to offer to undergraduate and master students state-of-the-art lectures and programming practical sessions upon High Performance and Distributed Computing topics. SC-Camp is a non-profit event, addressed to every student including those that lack of financial backup. Last year all students that applyied in due time received a grant to attend lectures, including meals and accomadations. This year the event will be hosted by BIOS Centro de Bioinformática Y Biología Computacional in the outstanding park of Manizales, Colombia.

This year, the summer school is focused in bioinformatics and technology trends to biology and life sciences. SC-Camp 2014 features 6 days of scientific sessions and 1 leisure day with an organized activity (for example, hiking or rafting). During the lectures there will be held several parallel programming practical sessions.

We welcome applications of undergraduate (preferable at last year) or master students from all areas of engineering and science with strong interest upon High Performance and Distributed Computing. Due to the advanced content of lectures some basic notions of Parallel and Distributed Computing along with programming skills are desired. All courses and lectures will be held in English, thus a good knowledge of English -both oral and written- is mandatory. The scientific and steering committee will evaluate the application forms based on the applicant's scientific background and their motivation letter. This year, in a first time, we expect to accept from 80 up to 120 students. The registration fee includes accommodation and access to all scientific lectures. More information and registration in http://www.sc-camp.org

Using Grid Computing Network to Access GPGPUs Computing Platforms

Monica Hernandez, Engineer of the High Performance and Scientific Computing Unit of UIS-Colombia does CUDA Instruction to SC-CAMP'12 Participants

"Today is the GPGPU Computing Day in SCCAMP'12. Using GridUIS-2, the distributed computing platform of the  Universidad Industrial de Santander in Colombia, the participants can access to GUANE-1, the most famous GPGPU platform in Colombia, because is the most powerful GPGPU cluster of the country in this moment. With 64 C2075 NVIDIA TESLA GPUs distributed in 8 nodes, each one with 104 GB of RAM, 3 high bandwidth networks and more special characteristics, GUANE-1 was performed to support mainly research activities in different domains related with energy, environment and bio in tropical conditions.

GPGPU computing allows to treat scientific problems exploiting GPUs, graphic cards designed to support multi-threading. Different platforms in the world are deployed to some projects, from science life to weather research. Nowadays, GPGPU computing is more than a trend in high performance and scientific computing. During the CUDA Day, the "SCCAMPers" learn basis of CUDA seeing specific examples seen with other paradigms (as MPI and OpenMP) to compare performance and other features. The CUDA Day is managed by Pedro Velho, researcher at UFRGS in Porto Alegre, Brazil and Monica Hernandez, Engineer of the High Performance and Scientific Computing Unit (SC3-UIS) in Bucaramanga, Colombia. "

Tents Open, SCCAMP'12 go!!

SCCAMP 2012 Tents of Participants

"Yesterday afternoon, 53 students selected from Venezuela and Colombia plus 8 instructors from different countries met at Vegasol, Merida State in Venezuela, for the 2012 edition of the Supercomputing and Distributed Systems Camp School.

Inspired by the idea of taking advantage of the Internet and high speed networks available today (however the loss of connexion during 12 hours), one can exploit high performance computing infrastructures from anywhere, even located in the middle of the nature. This year, SCCAMP is in Vegasol, an equatorial site in the Venezuelan Andes with tropical conditions: 35°C degrees of temperature, palm trees in the middle of the mountains and rivers.

SC-Camp is an initiative of researchers to offer to undergraduate and master students state-of-the-art lectures and programming practical sessions upon High Performance and Distributed Computing topics. SC-Camp is a non-profit event, addressed to every student including those that lack of financial backup. This year the event will be hosted by Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida Venezuela 

In this version, special topics as bio-informatics, Grid computing flavos and colors, FPGAs programming and massive parallel processing programming based in CUDA will be developed during 6 days of Supercomputing Camp".

Open Applications to SC-CAMP 2012

SC-CAMP, the Supercomputing and Distributed Computing School open the application process to participation for the 2012 version that will be held in Mérida Venezuela.

Inspired by the idea to develop a camping school in the middle of the nature addressed to undergraduate and master students, SC-CAMP'12 offer a state-of-the-art lectures and programming practical sessions upon High Performance and Distributed Computing topics: Parallel Programming, Scalable Architectures (Cluster Computing, Grid Computing, Cloud Computing), Green Computing, High Interaction Performance Computing, e-Science and more.

This year, SC-Camp will be hosted by the Universidad de Los Andes, at Mérida, Venezuela from 9th to 15th July, in the Vega Sol Camping Resort.

SC-Camp is a non-profit event, addressed to every student including those that lack of financial backup. Last year all students that applied in due time received a grant to attend lectures, including meals and accommodations. Since the first version, SC-Camp has been supported by RedCLARA and different international organizations, as  is the case of GridTalk and ISGTW as media partners. 

For more information and applications, please visit: http://www.sc-camp.org

SC-CAMP 2011 Starts!!

"Under the shadow of the Turrialba Volcano, thirty students from different Latin-America countries and seven instructors from the world will be in the 2011 version of the Supercomputing and Distributed Systems camp for a week. 

This year, the world's happiest country  is the host of this initiative for researchers and PhD students to other students of master and undergraduate programs in computer science and scientific carriers. Costa Rica is one of the most "green" country of the planet (may be the most one), ecological conscience is placed in all of their habitants and the Turrialba site offers exotic trees and different extraordinary birds that every morning with their songs awaken all SC-CAMP participants.

SC-CAMP 2011 topics are addressed to large scale distributed systems profit. Day one was the introduction to large scale architectures, day two is the HPC day, third day is the Grid and Virtualization day to know and enjoy Grid'5000 platform. Wednesday will be the free day to visit the Turrialba's archaeological park, Thursday is named the HPC Boot day, to make several practical sessions in special topics of programming large scale distributed systems. Friday, the Contest day and Saturday the Hot Topics and Green Day, to finish the camping school with the towards on HPC and large scale architectures and a reflexion about HPC green computing.

SC-CAMP is promoted by LatinAmerican HPC-GRID Community with the support of different regional and world institutions, such as the case of Red CLARA, Grid Cast/ISGTW as media partner and more."

Supercomputing and Distributed Computing Camp 2011: Applications Opening in 3 days

SC-Camp is an initiative of researchers to offer to undergraduate and master students state-of-the-art lectures and programming practical sessions upon High Performance and Distributed Computing topics. This year the event will be hosted in Costa Rica, Central America by Universidad de Costa Rica, Sede del Atlántico en Turrialba.

SC-Camp is a non-profit event, addressed to every student including those that lack of financial backup.

Taking advantage of the Internet and high speed networks available today, one can exploit high performance computing infrastructures from anywhere, even located in the middle of the nature. SC-Camp is inspired by this idea, and proposes a SuperComputing summer school in a natural environment.

Topics:
SC-Camp summer school objective is to provide lectures and practical sessions upon the following topics:

• Parallel Programming
• Multiprocessors Programming
• Distributed Systems
  • Cluster Computing
  • Grid Computing
  • Cloud Computing
  • Volunteer Computing
• Resource/Job Management & Scheduling
• Virtualisation
• Green Computing
• Performance Evaluation
•  

SC-Camp 2011 is a 7 days summer school, starting on July the 10th of 2011, composed by 6 days of scientific sessions, 1 leisure day with an organized activity (for example, hiking or rafting). During the activities there will be held a parallel programming contest.

We welcome applications of undergraduate (preferable at last year) or master students from all areas of engineering and science with strong interest upon High Performance and Distributed Computing. Due to the advanced content of lectures some basic notions of Parallel and Distributed Computing along with programming skills are desired. All courses and lectures will be held in English, thus a good knowledge of English language -both oral and written- is mandatory. The scientific and steering committee will evaluate the application forms based on the applicant's scientific background and their motivation letter.

Important dates

• Applications opening:  10/04/2011
• Applications closing:    10/05/2011
• Admission notification: 01/06/2011
• Inscription deadline:     15/06/2011

 More information in www.sc-camp.org

Last Views of SC-Camp 2010

SC-Camp 2010 finishes. After a week of theoretical and practical sessions, the organizers, instructors and students are very satisfied.

Gilberto Diaz, Associate Professor of Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida, Venezuela. SC-Camp 2010 Organizer and Instructor.

Jorge Ramirez, Student of Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela. SC-Camp 2010 participant.

Diego Fernando Marin, Universidad Santiago de Cali, Cali, Colombia. SC-Camp 2010 Participant.

Carlos Varela, Associate Professor RPI, USA. SC-Camp 2010 Speaker.

Yiannis Georgiou, BULL France R & D Scientist. SC-Camp 2010 Organizer.

Scientific research nowadays is based on collaboration, especially in the domain of distributed computing. Synchronization and scheduling problems can lead to systems' bad performance.

From Grid Middlewares to Ambient Computing

Pr. Carlos Varela, from RPI Worldwide computing labs, presented SALSA, but not the "latino" rhythm to dance all night, but else the Simple Actor Language System and Architecture. In their talk, several points about the possibility to adapt middleware for large scale architectures not only to High Performance and Grid Computing also addressed to Cloud computing needs.



On the other hand, Pr. Riveill from Nice-Sophia Antipolis University in France, shown about the challenges in ambient computing, also in the context of the auto-adaptivity of the applications in different middlewares to Ubiquitous and Cloud Computing.

SC-Camp First Scenes

First days in the SC-Camp 2010. People work and enjoy activities in the Supercomputing Camp. Opening and Cluster Computing days finish with a smile in the sky... and in the faces of the SC-Camp participants.


SC-Camp 2010 Campers...


Catching the Carp...
Opening SC-Camp...


SC-Camp Practices...

Working Hard...

More photos in http://www.flickr.com/groups/sccamp2010/

Call for participation: SC-Camp 2010

In times of ecologist reflections and the role of the technology in sustainable development, Supercomputing and Distributed Systems Camp (SC-Camp) proposes to join together education, technology, science and nature.

SC-Camp is an initiative of researchers which offers undergraduate and master students cutting-edge knowledge on High Performance and Distributed Computing topics. It is a non-profit event, open to every student including who need financial assistance.

Taking advantage of the Internet and high speed networks available today, one can exploit high performance computing infrastructures from anywhere, even located in the middle of the nature. SC-Camp is inspired by this idea, and proposes a SuperComputing summer school in a natural environment.

The SC-Camp 2010 is a 8 days summer school, starting on 15th August 2010, composed of 6 days of scientific sessions, 1 leisure day with an organized activity (for example, hiking or rafting) and 1 day for a parallel programming contest.

This year the event will take place in South America on the Andes mountains. The camp spot is next to the Villa de San Carlos de Pie de la Cuesta (for short Piedecuesta) in Colombia. This city located in Santander department is very close to the Chicamocha canon being known by its rich flora/fauna and its proximity of the historical city of Villa de los Caballeros de San Juan de Giron.

The SC-Camp summer school will provide lectures and practical sessions on the following topics:

- Parallel Programming

- SMP Programming

- Distributed Systems

- Cluster Computing

- Grid Computing

- Cloud Computing

- Volunteer Computing

- Resource/Job Management & Scheduling

- Virtualisation

- Green Computing

- Performance Evaluation

Access http://www.sc-camp.org to learn more about the event.