Boosting Advanced Computational Applications and Resources in Latin America through Collaboration and Sharing

Abstract

Although computing research and facilities in Latin

America have been developing steadily, a remarkable

gap nevertheless remains in the availability of

resources and specialized human resources

compared to other regions. RICAP (Red

Iberoamericana de Computación de Altas

Prestaciones, or Ibero-American Network for High-

Performance Computing) aims to fill this gap by

means of a strategic and advanced computational

infrastructure that includes both high-performance

and high-throughput computing platforms. This

network will also develop software tools to facilitate

this infrastructure’s accessibility and computational

efficiency to encourage use by the Latin American

computing community as well as focus on strengthening and training human resources

in both parallel programming techniques and large-scale computing platform operations.