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María José López Pourailly
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.
María José López Pourailly
Martha Avila is in charge of the space created by CUDI to facilitate its communities work, she worked together with RedCLARA’s software engineering team in order of bring VC Espresso to CUDI’s platform. In this interview we talk with Martha about this experience.
Tania Altamirano López
During 04:11 minutes and with simple, entertaining and easy to understand illustrations, the material explains what are the inter-federations, how do they operate and the benefits they offer to the academic and research communities.
Tania Altamirano López
The activity will be conducted by videoconference. All member institutions of the national networks connected to CLARA can participate by completing the registration form available here. It will also be possible to follow the event through the transmission will be available at the following link: http://200.0.206.126/streaming (the URL will be online only the day of the event).
María José López Pourailly
“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.”
María José López Pourailly
“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.”