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CARLA Conference 2026

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ARLA is an international conference aimed at providing a forum to foster growth and strength of the High Performance Computing (HPC) community in Latin America and beyond. The conference serves as a platform for new ideas, techniques, and research in HPC and its application areas. Started in 2014, CARLA 2026 is organized by the most important HPC Center in…

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16Voices
0Underwriters
0Exhibitors
16On the bill · sessions
8Companies · in total
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The Voices

Programmed at CARLA, in alphabetical order.
Daniel Cordeiro
University of São Paulo – USP
Dr. Charah T. Watson
Executive Director · Scientific Research Council
Dr. Kevin A. Brown
General Co-Chair, CARLA 2025
Dylan Benavides Castillo
Costa Rica National High Tecnology Center – CENAT
Erick Damasceno
Federal University of Pará – UFPA
Esteban Meneses
Costa Rica National High Technology Center – CENAT
Esteban Mocskos
Chair
Fabricio Quirós Corella
Costa Rica National High Tecnology Center – CENAT
Felipe Barbosa
Federal University of Pará – UFPA
Fellipe Queiroz
Federal University of Pará – UFPA
Francisco Aguirre
LATAM NVIDIA Solutions Senior Principal · Dell Technologies
Josiany Brito Guimarães
Federal University of Pará – UFPA
Josivaldo de Souza Araújo
Federal University of Pará – UFPA
Marcos Amarís
Federal University of Pará – UFPA
Prof. Tannecia Stephenson
Deputy Dean, Faculty of Science and technology; Co-Director of the Climate Studies group, Mona (CSGM) · University of the West Indies, Mona
Rupak Biswas
Director of Exploration Technology · NASA Ames Research Center
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The Programme

Selected from 16 sessions on the bill.
  • Thursday, 10:30 am

    What you “REALLY” need to know about #AI (from AI to AgenticAI)

  • Thursday, 11:40 am

    Machine Learning for Predicting Job States and CPU Power on a Supercomputer

    Efficient resource management in high-performance computing (HPC) is essential for optimizing costs, reducing energy consumption, and improving system productivity. However, job va…

    Paper Presentation
  • Thursday, 11:40 AM – 1:00 PM

    Research Paper Session 1: Machine Learning for HPC Profiling

  • Thursday, 12:00 pm

    Performance and Energy Consumption Prediction of Scientific Workflows using Machine Learning

    In High Performance Computing (HPC), large-scale scientific workflows are essential for modern discoveries but lead to significant energy consumption. This work explores predictive…

    Paper Presentation
  • Thursday, 9:00 am

    CARLA 2025 Welcome Message

  • Thursday, 9:00 am

    Remarks

  • Thursday, 9:30 am

    Exploration Technologies to Enable NASA Missions

    NASA’s missions span human and robotic space exploration, ground-breaking aeronautics research, and Earth and space sciences. This talk will provide a broad overview of numerous HP…

  • Tuesday, September 22, 2025, 2:00 pm

    Dist. Deep Learning: A Tutorial on Distributed Training Techniques for Large Deep Learning Models

    Track 3
  • Tuesday, September 22, 2025, 9:00 am

    A Programming Introduction to HPC

    Track 2
Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

An audience of 8 companies, parsed from the program.

Eight companies in attendance.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page — cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

01Fig. 01 — Composition of the House
0All threespeak · spons · exh
0Sponsoringsponsor only
0Exhibitingexhibitor only
8Companies Speakingspeaker only
02Fig. 02 — The Voices, by Seniority

19% of the speakers carry senior titles — C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • Director / Head of319%
  • Manager / Lead16%
  • Other roles1275%

Of 16 on the bill · classified by free-text title

03Fig. 03 — The Heaviest in the Room
  1. 01Federal University of Pará – UFPA6V
  2. 02Costa Rica National High Tecnology Center – CENAT2V
  3. 03Costa Rica National High Technology Center – CENAT1V
  4. 04Dell Technologies1V
  5. 05NASA Ames Research Center1V
  6. 06Scientific Research Council1V
  7. 07University of São Paulo – USP1V
  8. 08University of the West Indies, Mona1V
04Fig. 04 — By Tier

Tiers were not disclosed for this convocation.