Birds of a Feather

Americas HPC Collaboration: Global Actions

Authors: Jose Monsalve Diaz (Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)), Veronica Melesse Vergara (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Carlos Barrios Hernandez (Universidad Industrial de Santander, Advanced Computing Service for Latin America and the Caribbean (SCALAC)), Esteban Meneses (Centro Nacional de Alta Tecnologia (CENAT), Advanced Computing Service for Latin America and the Caribbean (SCALAC)), Philippe Navaux (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Advanced Computing Service for Latin America and the Caribbean (SCALAC)), Bernd Mohr (Juelich Supercomputing Centre (JSC)), Silvio Rizzi (Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)), Mark Leggott (Digital Research Alliance of Canada), Seppo Sahrakorpi (Digital Research Alliance of Canada), Benjamin Hernández (NVIDIA Corporation)

Abstract: The SC23 edition of the Birds of a Feather Americas High-Performance Computing Collaboration: Global Actions seeks to showcase collaborations that have resulted from the partnerships formed since the first edition at SC19, presenting opportunities and experiences between different HPC Networks and Laboratories from countries in North, Central, and South America with other continents, mainly with Europe. In the BoF, different aspects will be discussed around the expectations and experiences of collaboration in HPC, to feed the continental roadmap. This BoF is a crucial step to support the signature of an MoU to start the formalization of the Americas HPC Collaboration.

Long Description: The fifth edition of the Birds of a Feather (BoF) Americas High Performance Computing (HPC) Collaboration seeks to showcase collaborations that have resulted from the partnerships formed in the last edition of this BoF at SC22. It will also present opportunities and experiences between different HPC Networks and Laboratories from countries in North, Central, and South America. There are two main goals of this BoF: The first one, discuss how to create a formal continental collaboration in the Americas, observing the experiences in other continents, mainly in Europe, and the second, show the global actions developed for the partners from USA, CANADA and Latin America, with other continents in real global actions.

The BoF Americas HPC Collaboration presents this year the experiences of different projects as the case of the RISC-2 Project (https://www.risc2-project.eu/) involving Latin American centers and universities, mainly managed by SCALAC and coordinated by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. Additionally, the BoF Americas HPC collaboration invites representatives of the European HPC Joint Undertaking consortium (https://eurohpc-ju.europa.eu) to understand how the European HPC collaboration evolves and promotes research and development in the continent.

There were approximately fifty participants in the previous versions of the BoF in the SC Conference Series, which included attendees from non-profit organizations, academia, government, and industry. For SC23, we expect the same level of participation.

The outcomes of this BoF are described next. First, following the construction of the formal Americas HPC Collaboration in a consortium, joining the three (3) main HPC region actors in the continent: USA (represented by the ACCESS actors and DoE), Canada (Represented by Alliance Canada), and Latin America and the CAribe (Represented by SCALAC). After this BoF, we pretend the signature of an MoU between the actors to start the actions of formalizing the Americas HPC Collaboration.

Website: https://americashpccollaboration.net/