
Chair: Erick Mata
Presenters:
– Dr. Esteban Meneses
Director of the Advanced Computing Laboratory at the Costa Rica National High Technology Center (CeNAT)
– Dr. Álex Murillo
Director of Atlantic Campus of the University of Costa Rica (UCR)
– Dr. Isidoro Gitler
Director of ABACUS, the Applied Mathematics and High Performance Computing Laboratory of the Center for Research and Advanced Studies (CINVESTAV) of the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico
– Dr. Federico Torres
Director of Research and Development, Costa Rica Ministry of Science, Technology and Telecommunications (MICITT)

Coffee and snacks

Chair: Esteban Meneses
Presentations:
– Simplifying the development of complex workflows for distributed computing infrastructures (Keynote Talk)
Rosa M Badia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center
– Dell EMC HPC Solutions Portfolio. Making innovation real with the convergence of HPC and AI (Industry Talk)
Joaquim Munoz Merino, Dell Technologies

Casado (Costa Rican dish)

Chair: Carla Osthoff
Presentations:
– Assessing Kokkos Performance on Selected Architectures (Paper)
Chang Phuong, Noman Saied, Craig Tanis
– Optimizing Water Cooling Applications on Shared Memory Systems (Paper)
Edson Luiz Padoin, Andressa Tais Diefenthaler, Matheus Serpa, Pablo José Pavan, Emmanuell D. Carreno, Philippe Navaux, Jean Francois Mehaut
– Accelerating the calculation of Friedman Test tables on many-core processors (Paper)
Diego Irigaray, Ernesto Dufrechou, Martín Pedemonte, Pablo Ezzatti, Carlos López-Vázquez
– New Systems, New Projects: PSC’s HPC, HPAI, and Data Journey Continues (Invited Talk)
Paola Buitrago, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

Chair: Lilliana Sancho
Presentations:
– Performance Evaluation of Parallel Inference of Large Phylogenetic Trees in Santos Dumont Supercomputer: a Practical Approach (Paper)
Kary Ocaña, Carla Osthoff, Micaella Coelho, Marcelo Galheigo, Isabela Canuto, Douglas Oliveira, Daniel Oliveira
– Using Cluster Analysis to Assess the Impact of Dataset Heterogeneity on Deep Convolutional Network Accuracy: A First Glance (Paper)
Mauro Méndez Mora, Saul Calderon-Ramirez, Pascal Tyrrell
– Measuring the Effect of Reverberation on Statistical Parametric Speech Synthesis (Paper)
Marvin Coto-Jimenez
– Deep learning and mathematical morphology for biomedical applications (Invited Talk)
Etienne Decencière, MINES ParisTech

Coffee and snacks

Chair: Philippe Navaux
Presentations:
– Improving the Simulation of Biologically Accurate Neural Networks Using Data Flow HLS Transformations on Heterogeneous SoC-FPGA Platforms (Paper)
Kaleb Alfaro-Badilla, Andrés Arroyo-Romero, Carlos Salazar-García, Luis G. León Vega, Javier Espinoza-González, Franklin Hernández-Castro, Alfonso Chacón-Rodríguez, Georgios Smaragdos, Christos Strydis
– Bounding Volume Hierarchy Acceleration Through Tightly Coupled Heterogeneous Computing (Paper)
Ernesto Rivera-Alvarado, Francisco J. Torres-Rojas
– Towards a lightweight method to predict the performance of sparse triangular solvers on heterogeneous hardware platforms (Paper)
Raúl Marichal, Ernesto Dufrechou, Pablo Ezzatti
– On the road to Exascale: Past, Present, and Future leadership-class systems at the OLCF (Invited Talk)
Verónica Melesse Vergara, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Chair: Erick Mata
Presentations:
– Assessing the impact of a preprocessing stage on deep learning architectures for breast tumor multi-class classification with histopathological images (Paper)
Iván Calvo, Saul Calderon-Ramirez, Jordina Torrents Barrena, Erick Alejandro Muñoz Alvarado, Domenec Puig
– Comparison of Four Automatic Classifiers for Cancer Cell Phenotypes using M-pase Features Extracted from Brightfield Microscopy Images (Paper)
Francisco Siles, Andrés Mora, Steve Quirós
– Insight GT: a public, fast, web image groundtruth authoring tool (Paper)
Joel Barrantes Garro, Hellen Rodríguez Morales, Adrián Garnier Artiñano, Saul Calderon-Ramirez, Fabian Porras Jiménez, Luís Carlos Corrales Arley, Ricardo Brenes Camacho
– A First Glance into Reversing Senescence on Herbaria Images Through Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (Paper)
Juan Villacis-Llobet, Marco Lucio-Troya, Marvin Calvo-Navarro, Saul Calderon-Ramirez, Erick Mata-Montero

Appetizers
