Schedule

8:30am to 6:30pmLaboratorio 1

Tutorial: Foundations of Urban Informatics, Mobility Data Analysis

8:30am to 12:30pmLaboratorio 2

Tutorial: Machine Learning and its Applications in Astronomy

8:30am to 3:30pmSala Multiuso

Tutorial: Getting started with Containers in HPC

8:30am to 5:30pmSala 3

Tutorial: Modelling with COPASI

1:30pm to 5:00pmLaboratorio 2

Tutorial: PyCOMPSs Programming Language

9:00am to 12:00pmAuditorio CONARE, left side

Workshop: High Performance Computing Management Good Practices (HPC MGNT)

1:00pm to 4:00pmAuditorio CONARE, right side

Workshop: Latin American Women in High Performance Computing (LA WHPC)

8:00am to 9:00amMain Desk

Registration

9:00am to 10:30amSala 23

Inauguration

• Chair: Erick Mata.
• Dr. Esteban Meneses, Director of the Advanced Computing Laboratory at CeNAT.
• Dr. Alex Murillo, Director of the Atlantic Campus of the University of Costa Rica.
• Dr. Isidoro Gitler, Professor at CINVESTAV, Mexico.
• Dr. Federico Torres, Director of Research and Development, MICITT.

10:30am to 11:00amRancho

Morning break

11:00am to 12:30pmSala 23

Keynote talk and industry talk

• (Keynote) Rosa Badia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center.
• (Industry) Joaquim Munoz Merino, Dell Technologies.

12:30pm to 2:00pmRancho

Lunch

2:00pm to 4:00pmMini Auditorio

Session HPC 1

• (Paper) Assessing Kokkos Performance on Selected Architectures.
• (Paper) Optimizing Water Cooling Applications on Shared Memory Systems.
• (Paper) Accelerating the calculation of Friedman Test tables on many core processors.
• (Invited) Paola Buitrago, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center.

2:00pm to 4:00pmSala Adjunta

Session BIP 1

• (Paper) Adding Probabilistic Certainty to Improve Performance of Convolutional Neural Networks.
• (Paper) Using Cluster Analysis to Assess the Impact of Dataset Heterogeneity.
• (Paper) Measuring the Effect of Reverberation on Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis.
• (Invited) Etienne Decenciere, MINES ParisTech.

4:00pm to 4:30pmRancho

Afternoon break

4:30pm to 6:00pmMini Auditorio

Session HPC 2

• (Paper) Improving the Simulation of Biologically Accurate Neural Networks.
• (Paper) Bounding Volume Hierarchy Acceleration Through Tightly Coupled Heterogeneous Computing.
• (Paper) Towards a lightweight method to predict the performance of sparse triangular solvers.
• (Invited) Veronica Melesse Vergara, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

4:30pm to 6:00pmSala Adjunta

Session BIP 2

• (Paper) Assessing the impact of a preprocessing stage on deep learning architectures.
• (Paper) Comparison of Four Automatic Classifiers for Cancer Cell Phenotypes.
• (Paper) Insight GT: a public, fast, web image groundtruth authoring tool.
• (Paper) A First Glance into Reversing Senescence on Herbaria Images.

7:00pm to 9:00pmRancho

Reception

8:00am to 9:00amMain Desk

Registration

9:00am to 10:30amMini Auditorio

Session HPC 3

• (Paper) Optimizing Big Data Network Transfers in FPGA SoC Clusters.
• (Paper) GPU Support for Automatic Generation of Finite Differences Stencil Kernels.
• (Invited) Ignacio Laguna, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

9:00am to 10:30amSala Adjunta

Session BIP 3

• (Paper) Matching of EM Map segments to structurally relevant bio molecular regions.
• (Invited) Daisuke Kihara, Purdue University.
• (Invited) Stefan Hoops, University of Virginia.

10:30am to 11:00amRancho

Morning break

11:00am to 12:30pmSala 23

Keynote talk and industry talk

• (Keynote) Herve Goeau, CIRAD.
• (Industry) Fabio Alves, Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

12:30pm to 2:00pmRancho

Lunch

2:00pm to 4:00pmMini Auditorio

Session HPC 4

• (Paper) A Load Balancing Algorithm for Fog Computing Environment.
• (Paper) Multi objective configuration of a secured distributed cloud data storage.
• (Paper) Collaborative Development and Use of Scientific Applications in Orlando Tools.
• (Paper) Towards a Platform to evaluate the impact of Resource Information Distribution.

2:00pm to 4:00pmSala Adjunta

Session BIP 4

• (Paper) Enhancing speech recorded from a wearable sensor.
• (Paper) An Experimental Study on Fundamental Frequency Detection.
• (Paper) Assessing the Robustness of Recurrent Neural Networks.
• (Paper) A Performance Evaluation of Several Artificial Neural Networks.

4:00pm to 4:30pmRancho

Afternoon break

4:30pm to 6:00pmRancho

Poster session

8:00pm to 10:00pmHotel Villa Florencia

Gala dinner

8:00am to 9:00amMain Desk

Registration

9:00am to 10:30amMini Auditorio

Session HPC 5

• (Paper) ExaMPI: A Modern Implementation to Accelerate Message Passing Interface Innovation.
• (Paper) BS SOLCTRA: Towards a Parallel Magnetic Plasma Confinement Simulation Framework.
• (Invited) Leonardo Bautista, Barcelona Supercomputing Center.

9:00am to 10:30amSala Adjunta

Session BIP 5

• (Paper) Performance Evaluation of Parallel Inference of Large Phylogenetic Trees.
• (Paper) Diafora: A visualization tool to support the curation of biological taxonomies.
• (Invited) Rodrigo Mora, University of Costa Rica.

10:30am to 11:00amRancho

Morning break

11:00am to 12:30pmSala 23

Keynote talk and industry talk

• (Keynote) Antonio Tadeu A. Gomes, LNCC, Brazil.
• (Industry) Albert Trill, Atos.

12:30pm to 2:00pmRancho

Lunch

2:00pm to 4:00pmMini Auditorio

Session HPC 6

• (Paper) Delivering Scalable Deep Learning to Research with Bridges AI.
• (Paper) Modelling Road Saturation Dynamics on a Complex Transportation Network.
• (Industry) Jaime Puente, Lenovo.

2:00pm to 4:00pmSala Adjunta

Session BIP 6

• (Paper) Evolutionary approach for bus synchronization.
• (Paper) Autonomous flight of unmanned aerial vehicles using evolutionary algorithms.

4:00pm to 4:30pmRancho

Afternoon break

4:30pm to 6:00pmRancho

Poster session

6:00pm to 8:00pmRancho

Closure