July 2024
Tech Day: HPC and AI for a Better World
Professors Alfredo Goldman (IME USP) and Hermes Senger (UFSCar) participated on July 17, 2024 in the event "Tech Day: HPC and AI for a Better World", organized by Versatus HPC, Nvidia and IME USP. The event took place in the INOVA USP building and featured presentations by researchers and professionals in the field of High Performance Computing, including presentations by the two professors from the thematic project.
Tech Day attendees. Image: organizing committee (2024).
January 2024
Professor Alfredo Goldman elected new Chair of TCPP
Professor Alfredo Goldman (IME USP) has been elected the new Chair of the "Technical Community on Parallel Processing" (TCPP).
In this role, he will seek to fostering collaboration, driving innovation, and launch TCPP to new heights together with his peers.
This Community is part of the IEEE Computer Society and serves as an international forum to disseminate research on parallel processing. Find out more at: https://tc.computer.org/tcpp.
2024 Technology Predictions - IEEE Computer Society
Professor Alfredo Goldman participated in the "2024 Technology Predictions" coordinated by the IEEE Computer Society (CS). IEEE CS is the largest global community of engineers and computer scientists, comprised of more than 375,000 members from 157 countries.
Members of the "Technology Predictions" Committee met to discuss the advancement and impact of technology in different areas, including quantum computing, cybersecurity, and generative AI applications.
For more information, click here.
2024 Technology Predictions Team. Image: 2024 Technology Predictions' Report.
October 2023
THUS The Future Workshop - Collaboration between the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and the University of Sao Paulo (USP)
From October 23 to October 25, the THUS The Future Workshop took place at the Inova USP, São Paulo. The Workshop is part of the USP - CNRS cooperation agreement in the area of Computer Science research. Its objective is to promote scientific cooperation between French and USP peers, with the aim of proposing medium-term projects at the USP - CNRS center.
Researchers, professors and representatives of FAPESP, CNRS, and the French Consulate in São Paulo participated in the event.
For more information, click here.
Researchers during the workshop in front of the International Research Center (USP - CNRS). Image: event organizing committee (2023)
September 2023
FAU and IME were represented in a meeting with the Dean of Research and Innovation
On September 25, 2023, the first meeting of the USP Training Program in Academic Management of Research Projects (FGA) took place at the USP Innovation Center (InovaUSP), promoted by the Dean of Research and Innovation (PRPI USP). The opening lecture of the meeting was given by the President of the Brazilian Association of Research Managers, Juliana Juk Susnik, who talked about the challenges of the research management profession, especially in academic environments.
The Architecture and Urbanism College of the University of São Paulo (FAU USP) and the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of São Paulo (IME USP) were represented by Dr. Camila Silva, a FGA fellow who works in both institutions, and by one of her supervisors, Prof. Dr. Alfredo Goldman from IME USP, coordinator of the Thematic Project “Trends in High Performance Computing: from resource management to new computer architectures” financed by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). So, already Prof. Artur Rozestraten of the FAU USP who coordinates the FAPESP Thematic Project “Arquigrafia Experience 4.0”, which also has the collaboration of the FGA scholarship holder.
The event was attended by ten FGA Program scholarship holders from different University campuses, as well as several of their supervisors who are also coordinators of FAPESP Thematic Projects benefiting from the FGA Program. Prof. Susana Inés Cordoba de Torresi, Dean of Research, and Prof. Raul Gonzalez Lima, Dean of Innovation, were representing Prof. Paulo Alberto Nussenzveig, Dean of Research and Innovation at USP.
The FGA Program was created in August 2022 by PRPI USP and implemented in 2023 with the aim of designating PhD researchers to meet the need for training qualified professionals for the academic management of large research projects. The Program aims to optimize the time of main researchers, giving greater international competitiveness to research and promoting the advancement of various areas of knowledge and innovation of the University.
Professor Susana Torresi with FGA scholarship holders. Image: Joseline Manfroi
From left to right: Mayara Mendonça (ICB), Caroline Lino (ICB), Ariana Fernandes (FM), Profa. Susana Torresi, Marcelo Mota (IGc), Karina Salomão (FFCLRP), Joseline Manfroi (FFCLRP), Ana Borges (IQ), Nicole Torelli (IQ), and Camila Silva (IME e FAU).
September 2023
INFIERI 2023: two laboratories at the event received support from FAPESP Thematic Project "Trends in High Performance Computing"
The event took place at USP between August 28 and September 9, 2023. Two laboratories received support from the FAPESP Thematic Project "Trends in High Performance Computing":
Lab 5.1: Hermes Senger (Federal University of São Carlos - UFSCar) Roussian Gaioso (University of São Paulo), with support from Alfredo Goldman (IME-USP) and Rogerio Iope (NCC-UNESP)
Lab 5.2: Sandro Rigo, Hervé Yviquel, Márcio Pereira (University of Campinas, UNICAMP), Pedro Rosso (Cluster operation and support from University of Campinas, UNICAMP), with support from Alfredo Goldman (IME-USP) and Rogerio Iope (NCC-UNESP)
To learn more about the laboratories at the event, click here.
Presented works
Prof. Alfredo Goldman (IME USP) participated as a member of the local Organizing Committee and gave the talk entitled "HPC and hardware heterogeneity, how to navigate in this environment?", available at: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1221962/contributions/5446738/attachments/2715893/4717254/Infieri%202023%20-%20Goldman.pdf.
Prof. Sandro Rigo (UNICAMP), member of the Computer Systems Laboratory (LSC), had the work "FPGA-based acceleration of scientific applications using OpenMP cluster" presented at the event, together with other members of the LSC. Check out the presentation at the link: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1221962/contributions/5542894/attachments/2715084/4715621/INFIERI23-Short-OMPC+FPGA%20(1).pdf.
Prof. Hermes Senger (UFSCar), member of the Trends in High Performance Computing project, had the work "GPU Programming with OpenMP" presented at the event, together with Dr. Roussian R.A. Gaioso. Check out the presentation at the link: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1221962/contributions/5542891/attachments/2716730/4718759/Hermes%20Senger%20-%20Brief-OpenMP-GPU.pdf.
Event website https://infieri2023.ime.usp.br/.
Julho 2023
Project coordinated by Prof. Hermes Senger has funding approved by FINEP
The project entitled "Next Generation Seismic Inversion Acceleration", coordinated by Prof. Hermes Senger (UFSCar), was approved in a FINEP public call for development of technologies for offshore exploration and production of oil and gas. The objective of the proposal is to develop techniques on two main fronts, which are high-performance computing and artificial intelligence to accelerate and improve the quality of computational applications of seismic imaging. The budget is approximately 5 million reais for 4 years. The resources must be applied in the hiring of human resources (fellowships and software developers), purchase of equipment and HPC service in the cloud. The project is scheduled to start in the second half of 2023.
June 2023
Invited paper featuring Prof. Luiz F. Bittencourt will be presented at ICCCN 2023
The paper "A Self-distributing System Framework for the Computing Continuum" by Roberto Rodrigues Filho and collaborators, including Prof. Luiz F. Bittencourt, will be featured at ICCCN 2023. The meeting has technical support from the IEEE and the IEEE Communication Society. The event will take place from July 24th to 26th, 2023, in Hawaii, USA.
More information about th meeting can be found on its website.
May 2023
Prof. Alfredo Goldman is co-chair of the SC23 Workshops
The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis acontencerá will be held in Denver, Colorado, USA from November 12th to 17th, 2023. Prof. Alfredo Goldman will be the co-chair of the Workshops organzed inside the conference.
More information in the event webpage.
March 2023
Paper Accepted to be Presented at the JSSPP 2023 Workshop
The accepted paper authors are Lucas Rosa (IME's Undergrad Student), Dr. Danilo Carastan-Santos (postdoc in Grenoble), and Prof. Alfredo Goldman.
The paper entitled "An experimental analysis of regression-obtained HPC scheduling heuristics" will be presented at the 26th Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing (JSSPP 2023) to be held from May 15 to 19, 2023 in St. Petersburg, Florida, EUA.
January 2023
Scholarship from the Training Program in Academic Management of Research Projects (FGA) II
The selection process is concluded. We welcome Dr. Isabel Aleman to the team.
November 2022
Scholarship from the Training Program in Academic Management of Research Projects (FGA) I
The project was awarded a Scholarship from the Training Program in Academic Management of Research Projects by the USP Dean of Research and Inovation (PRPI). The fellowship is destined to hire an experieced scientist to help us manage the project.
More information on the program can be obtained in the PRPI webpage (portuguese only).