Birds of a Feather: Americas HPC Collaboration: Improving Continental Actions

The 2024 BoF Americas HPC Collaboration seeks to showcase collaboration opportunities and experiences between different HPC Networks and Laboratories from countries of the American continent. After the first meeting in SC’15 and SC’17, SC`19, organizers and attendees decided to develop the BoF year by year. In this SC24  BoF, we will show the results of the 2023/2024 activities in collaborative research and host a special panel with the three continental NRENs: CANARIE (Canada), Internet2 (USA), and RedCLARA (LAC).

Since its first edition, the BoF Americas HPC Collaboration has become the place to collaborate and share experiences between Institutes, Supercomputing Centers, Laboratories, Research Groups, scientific alliances, and Networks such as ACCESS, Alliance Canada, ORNL, ANL, Bridges, and SCALAC. Attendees from non-profit organizations, minorities, and diverse actors from academia and industry also participated. Last year, the BoF had more than 60 participants, and we expect to host a similar number of participants this year.

The expected outcomes of this BoF are described next:  First, to build on top of our previous discussions, an official Americas HPC Partnership, thanks to the interest shown by ACCESS, DOE HPC National Laboratories, Alliance Canada, and SCALAC, with special support of the NRENs: CANARIE, Internet2 and RedCLARA, that will boost the continental actions around advanced computing usage and research. Second, the identification of the critical points to develop an American roadmap following the experiences of other efforts, such as the case of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking presented at the SC23 BoF last year, and finally, the signature of an MoU to support the Advanced Computing Actions by RedCLARA, Internet2, and CANARIE.