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Meet the DSTN network at CARLA 2022!

The Digital Science and Technology Network DSTN will be taking part in CARLA 2022, the Latin American Conference on High-Performance Computing, to be held in Porto Alegre, Brazil, from September 26 to 30, 2022.

CARLA is an international conference that provides a forum to develop the growth and immpact of the High Performance Computing (HPC) community in Latin America through the exchange and dissemination of new ideas, techniques and research in the field of HPC and its applications. Initiated in 2014, CARLA has today become the flagship HPC conference in the region.
The conference offers the international community the opportunity to share advances in both HPC and HPC & AI (convergence between HPC and artificial intelligence), two key areas and predominant drivers of innovation and development.
Contributions are expected from faculty members, researchers, specialists and graduate students from around the world.

Meet members of the DSTN network in the "HPC Actions in Africa and Latin America" panel on September 27, 2022.

The objective:
This meeting will address the actions that are being developed in Africa and Latin America, and explore lines of action that promote collaboration between high-level computing centers and national networks in both regions.

  • 14:00 - 14:20 Prof. Maïssa MBAYE, Associate Professor at the Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis in Senegal and Coordinator of the African Center of Excellence in Mathematics, Computer Science and ICT (ACE MITIC), member of the DSTN Network
  • 14:20 - 14:40 Yousef Torman, Managing Director,Arab States Research and Education Network (ASREN).
  • 14:40 - 15:00 Carla Osthoff, Researcher at the National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC-Brazil).
  • 15:00 - 15:30 Round of questions to participants on possible next steps/collaborative actions.Carla Osthoff, Researcher at the National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC-Brazil).

Moderator:
Luis Eliércer Cadenas, Executive Director, RedCLARA

CARLA 2022