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The video recording of the "Computer resources to fight the pandemic: do's and don'ts" Webinar, carried out on April 23 by a collaboration of TACC, BSC and COPPE / UFRJ, from Brazil, with the support of RedCLARA, is already available on YouTube. At the meeting, different experiences of using computer resources in the fight against the Coronavirus pandemic were presented and discussed to understand what are the best practices.

The participants were:

• Dr. William L. Barth, Director of Future Technologies, The Texas Advanced Computing Center, University of Texas at Austin, USA. USA (Https://www.tacc.utexas.edu/about/directory/bill-barth)
• Dr. Guillaume Houzeaux, Manager of the Numerical and Physical Modeling Group, Supercomputing Center of Barcelona, ​​Spain (https://www.bsc.es/houzeaux-guillaume)
• Dr. Mariano Vázquez, Manager of the High Performance Computational Mechanics Group, Supercomputing Center of Barcelona, ​​Spain (https://www.bsc.es/vazquez-mariano)
• Prof. Guilherme H. Travassos, Head of the Hub.Rio and of the Department of Computer Sciences, COPPE / UFRJ (https://www.cos.ufrj.br/~ght/)

The discussion was moderated by Prof. Alvaro Coutinho, from the High Performance Computing Center of COPPE and Coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Area of ​​Engineering and Computational Science of COPPE.

To access the content of the Webinar, please visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQZ-TMsRNi0&feature=youtu.be