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CARLA 2019 25 to 27 September 2019 Turrialba, Costa Rica  |  [email protected]
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Day 1: Wednesday 25 September

The opening day of CARLA 2019, with the inauguration, keynote talks and the first HPC and BIP sessions.

The opening day of CARLA 2019, with the inauguration, keynote talks and the first HPC and BIP sessions.

9:00am to 10:30amSala 23

Inauguration

Chair: Erick Mata.

  • Dr. Esteban Meneses, Director of the Advanced Computing Laboratory at the Costa Rica National High Technology Center (CeNAT).
  • Dr. Alex Murillo, Director of the Atlantic Campus of the University of Costa Rica (UCR).
  • Dr. Isidoro Gitler, Director of ABACUS at CINVESTAV of the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico.
  • Dr. Federico Torres, Director of Research and Development, Costa Rica Ministry of Science, Technology and Telecommunications (MICITT).

11:00am to 12:30pmSala 23

Keynote talk and industry talk

  • Simplifying the development of complex workflows for distributed computing infrastructures (Keynote), Rosa M. Badia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center.
  • Dell EMC HPC Solutions Portfolio: making innovation real with the convergence of HPC and AI (Industry), Joaquim Munoz Merino, Dell Technologies.

2:00pm to 4:00pmMini Auditorio

Session HPC 1

  • Assessing Kokkos Performance on Selected Architectures (Paper), Chang Phuong, Noman Saied, Craig Tanis.
  • Optimizing Water Cooling Applications on Shared Memory Systems (Paper), Edson Luiz Padoin and colleagues.
  • Accelerating the calculation of Friedman Test tables on many core processors (Paper), Diego Irigaray and colleagues.
  • New Systems, New Projects: the PSC HPC, HPAI and Data Journey (Invited), Paola Buitrago, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center.

2:00pm to 4:00pmSala Adjunta

Session BIP 1

  • Adding Probabilistic Certainty to Improve Performance of Convolutional Neural Networks (Paper), Maria Pantoja and colleagues.
  • Using Cluster Analysis to Assess the Impact of Dataset Heterogeneity on Deep Convolutional Network Accuracy (Paper), Mauro Mendez Mora and colleagues.
  • Measuring the Effect of Reverberation on Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis (Paper), Marvin Coto Jimenez.
  • Deep learning and mathematical morphology for biomedical applications (Invited), Etienne Decenciere, MINES ParisTech.

4:30pm to 6:00pmMini Auditorio

Session HPC 2

  • Improving the Simulation of Biologically Accurate Neural Networks Using Data Flow HLS Transformations (Paper), Kaleb Alfaro Badilla and colleagues.
  • Bounding Volume Hierarchy Acceleration Through Tightly Coupled Heterogeneous Computing (Paper), Ernesto Rivera Alvarado, Francisco J. Torres Rojas.
  • Towards a lightweight method to predict the performance of sparse triangular solvers (Paper), Raul Marichal and colleagues.
  • On the road to Exascale: leadership class systems at the OLCF (Invited), Veronica Melesse Vergara, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

4:30pm to 6:00pmSala Adjunta

Session BIP 2

  • Assessing the impact of a preprocessing stage on deep learning architectures (Paper), Ivan Calvo and colleagues.
  • Comparison of Four Automatic Classifiers for Cancer Cell Phenotypes (Paper), Francisco Siles and colleagues.
  • Insight GT: a public, fast, web image groundtruth authoring tool (Paper), Joel Barrantes Garro and colleagues.
  • A First Glance into Reversing Senescence on Herbaria Images (Paper), Juan Villacis Llobet and colleagues.

The day closed with a welcome reception at the Rancho from 7:00pm to 9:00pm.