Hosted by Universidad de Guadalajara
The Latin America High Performance Computing Conference comes to Mexico
CARLA is an international conference that brings together the High Performance Computing community in Latin America. The 2021 virtual edition was hosted in Guadalajara and welcomed faculty, researchers, specialists and graduate students from around the world.
Free registration was offered for the 2021 edition. The conference took place from October 6 to 8, 2021. This site preserves the program, speakers and resources.
Venue
Guadalajara, Mexico
Workshops
October 4 to 5, 2021
Conference
October 6 to 8, 2021
Tutorials
September 27 to October 1 and October 11 to 15, 2021
CARLA provides a forum to foster the growth and strength of the High Performance Computing community in Latin America through the exchange and dissemination of new ideas, techniques and research in HPC and its application areas.
Started in 2014, CARLA has become the flagship conference for HPC in the region. The 2021 edition invited the international community to share advances in HPC and HPC&AI, the convergence between HPC and Artificial Intelligence.
The program combined keynote and invited talks from academia and industry, full article and poster sessions, workshops, tutorials and discussion spaces.
2014First CARLA edition
2Tracks: HPC and HPC&AI
7Workshops in 2021
4Keynote speakers
Keynote speakers
Four voices shaping the future of computing
Katherine Yelick
University of California, Berkeley
Keynote
Walfredo Cirne
Frank Würthwein
University of California, San Diego
KeynoteProgram
Three days of talks, panels and papers
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Wednesday 06/10
Opening and HPC
Opening ceremony, the Satoshi Matsuoka keynote, the José E. Moreira invited talk and the first HPC paper session.
Day 1 details -
Thursday 07/10
Panels and AI
Panel 1 on Africa and Latin American cooperation, keynotes by Katherine Yelick and Walfredo Cirne, and the first HPC&AI session.
Day 2 details -
Friday 08/10
Policy and closing
Panel 2 on public policies, the Frank Würthwein keynote, invited talks by Lucia Drummond and Nayat Sánchez Pi, and the closing session.
Day 3 details
Workshops
Seven workshops across the HPC ecosystem
From HPC management and energy to bioinformatics, gender and international collaboration, the 2021 workshops ran on October 4 and 5.
Good practices in HPC Management
Tuesday October 5, 2021
Latin American Women on HPC
Monday October 4, 2021
HPC and Energy
Monday October 4, 2021
BioCARLA
Tuesday October 5, 2021
HPC Collaboration between Europe and Latin America
Tuesday October 5, 2021
Americas HPC Collaboration
Tuesday October 5, 2021
Advanced Computing Trends
Monday October 4, 2021
Calls
The 2021 calls for participation
Archive notice. CARLA 2021 has concluded. The calls below are preserved for reference. All 2021 deadlines have passed.
Closed
Call for Papers
Two tracks, Springer CCIS proceedings and peer review.
Article deadline: August 6, 2021
Closed
Call for Workshops
Seven workshops spanning management, energy, biology, gender and international collaboration.
Abstract deadline: September 17, 2021
Closed
Call for Tutorials
Fundamental and advanced tutorials for undergraduate and graduate students across Latin America.
Proposal deadline: August 7, 2021
Closed
Call for Posters
Poster submissions with full size PDF guidance and a virtual presentation format.
Poster deadline: September 17, 2021
Archive
Revisit the 2021 edition
Multimedia
Videos and sessions
An index of the 2021 tutorial, track and workshop sessions, with links to the people and programs behind them.
ResourcesPresentation resources
Zoom backgrounds and PowerPoint templates that were offered to speakers and participants.
PeopleAll speakers and participants
A complete index of the keynote, invited, academic, industry and workshop speakers of CARLA 2021.
Organizers and partners
Hosted in Guadalajara by a regional community
The 2021 edition was hosted by the Universidad de Guadalajara through CADS and organized with SCALAC, the Advanced Computing System for Latin America and the Caribbean.
Universidad de Guadalajara
CADS
CINVESTAV
IPICYT
CNS
CUDI
SCALAC
REDMEXSU
2021 sponsors
- Red Hat
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise
- Altair
- NVIDIA
Explore the archive
The 2021 edition is complete. The program remains open.
Browse every session, speaker and workshop from CARLA 2021, or start with the program at a glance.