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Center for Technological Innovation in High Performance Computing

Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María is one of the most prestigious institutions of higher education in Chile. It owes its origins to the idea of the visionary businessman Federico Santa María who created an institution of higher learning that would transform the teaching of science and technology in Chile.

The University created in 2008, the Multidisciplinary Center for Innovation and Technology Transfer (CMITT), which is an organization focused on applied research and the transfer of technology to industry.

The Center for Technological Innovation in High Performance Computing (CTI-HPC) is one of the centres belonging to CMITT involved in the short-term implementation of supercomputing resources in order to solve high impact business and social problems.

CTI-HPC is mainly focused in the following areas:

Financial Market and Trading
Georeferencing and Geostatistics applied to Copper Minning
Biomedical Image Processing
Grid Computing
GPU programming
Scientific Computing

Newsflash

We are pleased to announce three joint GISELA/EPIKH training and dissemination events on grid computing technologies that will be held in Valparaiso, Chile at Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, from the 22nd of November 2010 to the 9th of December 2010.

These events are organized in two schools and one workshop day scheduled as follows:

1) Joint GISELA/EPIKH School for Grid Site Admnistrators (22-26 November): The aim of this tutorial is to prepare system administrators on the installation of grid sites and actually put together those facilities to increase the size of the Latin America Grid Infrastructure (LGI). The first days will be dedicated to the gLite middleware, services installation and configuration. The second part will be dedicated to have the participants install sites, remotely (from the tutorial), at their home institutions. (more info)

Participants should have very good Linux knowledge and must know Bash shell and Perl programming. No prior gLite knowledge is required, although it is very welcome.

2) Joint CHAIN/GISELA/EPIKH School for Application Porting (November 29 - December 9): The Grid School aims at increasing the number of scientific/industrial applications running on the Latin American Grid Infrastructure (LGI) production infrastructure. The School also aims at bringing new research groups to use the LGI resources as well as to diversity the application domains and scientific communities. (more info)
from 29th of November 2010 to 9th of December 2010

Important deadlines:

Application submission: November, 5, 2010;
Notification of acceptance: November, 12, 2010;
Registration (only for accepted candidates): Between November, 12 and November, 26, 2010.

3) EPIKH Workshop (December 10): The scope of the event is to show both to the scientific community and to the decision makers the outcomes of the Joint GISELA/EPIKH School for Grid Site Admnistrators and of the Joint CHAIN/GISELA/EPIKH School for Application Porting raising their awareness about the usefulness of e-Infrastructures for e-Science and the importance of their sustainability. (more info)

These events are in the framework of collaboration between GISELA and EPIKH projects and under the local organization of the Center for Technological Innovation in High Performance Computing (CIT-HPC)

The Exchange Programme to advance e-Infrastructure Know-How (EPIKH) is a Marie Curie Action, funded by the European Commission, with partners
worldwide. In Chile , these include the CIT-HPC and the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María. The strategic aims of the EPIKH project are
two:

To reinforce the impact of e-Infrastructures in scientific research, defining and delivering a stimulating programme of educational events, including Grid Schools and High Performance Computing courses.
To broaden the engagement in e-Science activities and collaborations both geographically and between disciplines.

Registration for the events are essential and it is free of charge for all participants.

If you have any doubts regarding how to participate in these events, please don't hesitate to contact us at contact@hpc.cl

Internship at Delaware University

During our summer, in January, we had the honor to receive Professor Louis Rossi from Delaware University (DU) at UTFSM and CTI-HPC. On that occasion several members of our center gave lectures related to their research for Professor Rossi allowing us to create an important link to that University.

Because of this visit, DU is looking forward to strengthening the connections between our institutions by creating larger externally supported exchange program. At the moment we are considering to start right away with modest exchanges.

CTI-HPC acquires Google Earth Enterprise (GEE) tools

The Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (UTFSM), through the CTI-HPC, led by Dr. Luis Salinas, is colaborating in the "Mining Cluster" (Innova CORFO) project of the Industries Department in the same university.

In order to work on this project, UTFSM and CORFO co-financed the acquisition of licences for Google Earth Enterprise (GEE) platform and the participation of a researcher of CTI-HPC - Paola Arce - in a training program in Google Argentina, where she got tools of this platform for a better performance at the center.

Francisco Soto, member of CTI-HPC and Coordinator of the "Mining Cluster Project", explained that "this contribution from Google is very important to this project, since it's main goal is to increase efficiency and territorial competitiveness of the project, through geo-referenced computational tools".

Panamá meeting for ALFA III

The ALFA Programme began in 1994 and sought to reinforce co-operation in the field of Higher Education. The programme co-finances projects aimed at improving the capacity of individuals and institutions (universities and other relevant organisations) in the two regions.

The first phase, ALFA I (1994-1999), with an EC contribution of € 31m, ran until 1999 and involved 1064 institutions operating 846 micro-projects.

The second phase, ALFA II (2000-2006), with a total of 10 selection rounds represented an EC contribution of €54.6m distributed to 225 approved projects held by 770 institutions organised in networks with an average of 9 institutions from LA and EU.

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