- María José López Pourailly
Herbert Hoeger, SCALAC: Trying to build access to advanced computing capabilities
SCALAC, the Advanced Computing Service for Latin America and the Caribbean, is an initiative that has been long-awaited by users of High Performance Computing in the region. We talk about it with one of its leaders: Herbert Hoeger , PhD in Computer Science and active promoter of the e- Science and the computational grids in the region, who from its academic position in the Universidad de Los Andes (Mérida , Venezuela) participated in GISELA, EELA and EELA-2 initiatives.
“I believe that RedCLARA could only be marked when all the countries of Latin America get connected, then we will be able to see how it is managed and what consequences it will produce in the advance of cooperation.”
“It is ver y impor tant to carr y out the reconnection to RedCLARA, because participating and collaborating through the internet is ver y difficult because of the low bandwidths available in Nicaragua’s state universities, for example. Fur thermore, the problem is not only the low bandwidth, but also the cost it has.”