High Performance Computing in Latin America: Inria Chile's Contributions at the CARLA 2024 Conference
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Changed on 29/10/2024
The Latin American Conference on High Performance Computing (CARLA), in this 2024 edition was held in Santiago, at the University of Chile, and brought together professionals dedicated to High Performance Computing (HPC), to share advances and research in the sector within Latin America.
An important event for the High Performance Computing community took place at the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences of the Universidad de Chile. CARLA 2024 brought together important researchers and top leaders of technology companies to share on the main topics related to HPC and AI integration. In this version, Luis Marti, Scientific Director at Inria Chile, and Sofia Calleja, Data Scientist at the same organization, participated in some of the activities carried out during the event.
Luis Martí, scientific director at Inria Chile, had the opportunity to moderate two panels during the conference. The first one, “Industry Snapshots: Sponsor Perspectives in HPC”, where he analyzed the state of the industry regarding the advances of HPC and its adaptation of these technologies in the companies of the region.
Afterwards, Martí moderated the panel “Leadership Perspectives: The Role of HPC in Transforming LATAM”, which brought together experts from AMD, Intel and NVIDIA and focused on providing an overview of the innovations and strategies that are driving the growth of HPC in Latin America, highlighting how these companies are strengthening the technological infrastructure in the area.
Sofia Calleja, who is part of the OcéanIA project, made the presentation “Development of artificial intelligence models for the supervised classification of plankton images”. The research, which seeks the application of AI models, contributes to “a better understanding of climate change, since we achieved a supervised classification of plankton images. Because they are present in the ocean and can produce between 50% and 80% of the oxygen released each year,” explained Sofía.
Inria Chile's participation in CARLA 2024 is aligned with its mission to promote applied research and technology development, helping the region to adopt and take advantage of advances in HPC and AI to address global challenges and driving the development of the technology ecosystem within the region.