Americas HPC Collaboration: Opportunities for Cross-Continental Partnerships  

 This talk will describe the Americas HPC Collaboration initiative which aims to encourage partnerships across the Americas in the high-performance computing field. It will also highlight several successful collaborations resulting from the community activities that the team has held over the years. In addition, the talk will present training and computational resources available that have been used successfully by collaboration between the US, Canadian, and Latin American organizations. The computational resources include those available at the U.S. Department of Energy Leadership Computing Facilities at Argonne National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Finally, the talk will describe opportunities to get involved in the Americas HPC Collaboration community.

Speaker’s Bio:

Verónica G. Melesse Vergara (Vergara Larrea) is originally from Quito, Ecuador. Verónica earned a B.A. in Mathematics/Physics at Reed College and a M.S. in Computational Science at Florida State University. Verónica has over a decade of experience in the high-performance computing field and is currently the Group Leader of the System Acceptance and User Environment Group at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility. In addition to providing assistance to OLCF users, Verónica is part of the systems testing team, led acceptance for Summit, and is leading acceptance for Frontier, ORNL’s exascale supercomputer. Her research interests include high-performance computing, large-scale system testing, and performance evaluation and optimization of scientific applications. Verónica is a member of both IEEE and ACM and serves on the ACM SIGHPC Executive Committee and the SC Steering Committee.