Americas HPC Collaboration: Fostering an HPC Education & Workforce Development Ecosystem
Birds of a Feather: Americas HPC: Collaboration: Fostering an HPC Education & Workforce Development Ecosystem
TBD November 2025
The SC25 Americas HPC Collaboration BoF will focus on HPC-related training efforts across the continent. Selected 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 & Workforce Chapter as a collaborative chapter to share experiences, training materials, and infrastructure among institutions across the Americas.
Since its first edition, the BoF Americas HPC Collaboration has become the place to share experiences between institutes, supercomputing centers, national laboratories, research groups, scientific alliances, and networks including ACCESS, Alliance Canada, RedCLARA, SCALAC among others. Attendees from non-profit organizations, underrepresented groups, and diverse participants from academia, government, and industry have also participated. In 2023, the BoF had more than 60 participants, and we expect to host a similar number of participants this year.
The 2025 edition of the Americas HPC Collaboration BoF seeks to showcase educational and workforce development activities to allow attendees to exchange and develop best practices with the goal to form the first official chapter of Americas HPC Collaboration that will focus on Education & Workforce Development.
About CANARIE
Established in 1993, CANARIE is a non-profit corporation. The government of Canada provides most of our funding. Together with 13 provincial and territorial partners, it forms Canada’s National Research and Education Network (NREN).
About Internet2
Internet2 is a community that provides a secure, high-speed network, cloud solutions, research support, and services tailored to research and education. Its community includes higher education, research institutions, government entities, corporations, and cultural organizations.
About RedCLARA
RedCLARA is a nonprofit organization that develops and operates the only Advanced Internet network in Latin America and integrates 11 regional national networks. Its mission is to contribute to the development of science, education, technology, and innovation in Latin America and the Caribbean through the articulation, connection, and strengthening of their national research and education networks.
Session Format
Proposed agenda:
Time | Description | Chair/Presenter |
(1 min.) | Welcome and Description of Americas HPC Collaboration | Carlos J. Barrios Hernandez |
(4 min.) | Americas HPC Collaboration: 2024-2025 Highlights | |
(25 min.) | Panel | Esteban Meneses |
(30 min.) | Lightning Talks | Philippe Navaux |
(25 min) | Panel | Philippe Navaux |
(5 min) | Closing Remarks | Fernando Posada |
Organizers and Session Contributors
- Esteban HERNANDEZ (SCALAC/CyberColombia)
- Esteban MENESES (SCALAC/CENAT)
- Carlos J. BARRIOS HERNANDEZ (SCALAC/SC3UIS)
- Veronica MELESSE VERGARA (ORNL)
- Fernando POSADA CORREA (ORNL)
- Silvio RIZZI (ANL)
- Philippe NAVAUX (SCALAC/INF-UFRGS)
- Jose Manuel MONSALVE (AMD)
- Benjamin HERNANDEZ (NVIDIA)
Featured Speakers
- Iván GIROTTO (ICTP)
- Eliana VALENZUELA ANDRADE (University of Puerto Rico Arecibo)