The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis
The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis
Authors: Esteban Hernández (CyberColombia, Distrital University), Verónica Melesse Vergara (Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)), Fernando Posada (Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)), Silvio Rizzi (Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)), Carlos Jaime Barrios Hernández (Scalac, Universidad Industrial of Santander), Esteban Meneses (CENAT, SCALAC), Philippe Navaux (UFGR, SCALAC), Jose Manuel Monsalve (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD); Cybercolombia), Benjamín Hernández (NVIDIA Corporation, Tecnologico de Monterrey), Eliana Valenzuela Andrade (University of Puerto Rico Arecibo)
Abstract: The SC25 Americas HPC Collaboration BoF will primarily focus on HPC-related training efforts across the continent. Selected successful training initiatives will be showcased, including the CyberColombia and Santos Dumont summer school series, the DevOps for HPC School at CARLA, Mexico’s CONACyT-sponsored school, and the new HPC curriculum development at UPR Arecibo.
The expected outcomes are: expansion of continent-wide educational initiatives, including summer schools, hackathons, and bootcamps; and the formal launch of the Americas HPC Collaboration—Education and Workforce Development Chapter as a collaborative effort to share experiences, training materials, and infrastructure among institutions across the Americas.
Long Description: High-performance computing (HPC) has become indispensable to disciplines ranging from climate modelling to drug discovery, yet the pipeline of professionals who can program, optimize, deploy, and operate HPC systems remains thin. The SC25 Americas HPC Collaboration (AHPCC) Education & Workforce Development Birds-of-a-Feather (BoF) aims to launch an initiative to address that skills gap by convening organisations already running successful hands-on training programs across the continent to build a shared roadmap that enables scaling of these efforts.
The BoF will feature representatives from various international organizations, including the Advanced Computing System for Latin America and the Caribbean (SCALAC), the Latin American Advanced Networks Cooperation (RedCLARA), the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), as well as national representatives from Colombia, Chile, Brazil, Mexico, Costa Rica, Canada, United States, and others.
The BoF will feature and focus on the following:
- Latin American HPC Summer Schools: Brazil’s Santos Dumont School, Colombia’s CyberColombia series, and Mexico’s CONACyT initiative have jointly trained more than 900 participants in MPI, OpenMP, CUDA, and AI pipelines since 2021. Each school donates intake slots to under-represented institutions and streams every lecture over RedCLARA’s backbone for real-time remote labs.
- Technical Bootcamps & Hackathons: the DevOps for HPC School @ CARLA is an annual week-long clinic that covers key concepts of HPC system administration including container orchestration, software deployment, CI/CD, and performance engineering on heterogeneous clusters. Alumni now maintain production deployments at eight universities and two oil-and-gas research centre's. The ICTP HPC Technologies bootcamp is a hands-on two-week program teaches participants the full pipeline from cluster deployment to configuration and use of HPC system. Organizers have also leveraged hackathons to solve real problems through focused events pairing USA and Latin American teams with mentors from DOE national laboratories and SCALAC sites. Projects have delivered GPU-accelerated atmospheric down-scaling that runs faster on cycles provided by the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility and Chameleon Cloud,
The BoF will introduce the AHPCC Education & Workforce Development Chapter and will provide opportunities for participants to hear about programs in the region, exchange ideas, and help draft the charter and roadmap for the chapter. The proposed chapter will begin with quarterly coordination meetings featuring presentations on successful practices and engagement strategies to attract new members and foster cross-continental collaboration. The initiative will also develop a shared repository of training materials and allocate compute resources to support extended hands-on training events
Through two distinct panels, participants will learn more about established academic programs and short targeted focus schools to help draft a roadmap that can scale up HPC training efforts across the continent while leveraging resources available at Americas HPC Collaboration partner sites.
Website: https://americashpccollaboration.net/sc25-americas-hpc-edu-bof