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CARLA 2019 25 to 27 September 2019 Turrialba, Costa Rica  |  [email protected]
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Schedule

The complete CARLA 2019 timetable.

The full CARLA 2019 schedule. Tutorials and workshops took place on 23 and 24 September 2019 at CeNAT in San Jose, and the conference ran from 25 to 27 September 2019 at the Atlantic Campus of the University of Costa Rica in Turrialba.

Day 1 Day 2 Day 3

Tutorials

Monday 23 September

Hosted at the National High Technology Center (CeNAT), San Jose, Costa Rica

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

Workshops

Tuesday 24 September

Hosted at the National High Technology Center (CeNAT), San Jose, Costa Rica

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)

CARLA Conference

Wednesday 25 September

Hosted at the University of Costa Rica, Atlantic Campus, Turrialba, Costa Rica

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

CARLA Conference

Thursday 26 September

Hosted at the University of Costa Rica, Atlantic Campus, Turrialba, Costa Rica

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

CARLA Conference

Friday 27 September

Hosted at the University of Costa Rica, Atlantic Campus, Turrialba, Costa Rica

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