LATIN AMERICAN HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING CONFERENCE

Call for Tutorials

In CARLA 2026 we will offer tutorials and hands-on workshops for both introductory and advanced levels, specially driven to undergraduate and master students all over Latin- American countries. There will be two periods: 

  • Introductory tutorials will be covered in remote format the week before the conference;
  • Advanced tutorials will be held at the conference venue, the same week of CARLA 2026.

IMPORTANT DATES

  • Tutorial proposal submission deadline: July 1st, 2026
  • Date of notification: July 26th, 2026
  • (remote) Fundamental Courses dates: September 14th to 18th, 2026
  • (on site) Advanced Courses dates: September 21st to 22th, 2026
  • Conference dates: September 21-25, 2026

FUNDAMENTAL COURSES

Professionals and researchers can propose courses and tutorials to be held the week before CARLA 2026 September 14th to 18th, to cover basic and introductory topics on HPC areas.

The courses should be remote via UNC remote tools powered by Google.

We plan to offer at least four courses on HPC Fundamentals, topics may include:

  •  MPI
  •  OpenMP
  •  Introduction to GPU programming
  •  AI fundamentals, R language, etc.

Courses should be organized to be delivered in 2 to 4 hands-on sessions

  •     • Reference and support materials, available with free licenses.
  •     • Access to hardware and software platforms for each student.
  •     • Fundamental courses can be delivered in Spanish/Portuguese/English, but all the material must be available in English.

ADVANCED COURSES

Professionals and researchers can propose tutorials of different length, depending on specific topics. These are driven to advanced students with previous experience, to enhance academic/ research topics of interest.

Topics may include:

  • HPC on the cloud.
  • Mathematical modeling.
  • Advanced tools for Data Analysis.
  • Advanced GPU programming.
  • AI specific tools and techniques, etc.
  • Energy-specific tools and techniques, etc.

Dates: September 21st, 2026, same week of conference.
These tutorials are to be delivered on site and students will be invited to bring their own laptops.

Courses should be organized to be delivered in 1 to 2 sessions, 4 hours each.
Each session must include at least 1 ½ hours of live guided “hands-on” practice and offer students reference and support materials, available with free licenses, and access to hardware and software platforms for each student.

Advanced courses must be delivered in English and all the materials must be available in English.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Tutorial proposals should be in English and should contain no more than three (3) pages in length, PDF format.

Tutorial proposals should conform to the following outline:

  • General information: title, organizers and presenters names, affiliation, contact information, and brief bio. Please include a photo of the professor for the CARLA site.
  • Abstract: 1-2 paragraphs suitable for inclusion in the conference registration material.
  • Topic and relevance: a description of the tutorial topic, providing a sense of both the scope of the tutorial and depth within the scope, and a statement on why the tutorial is important and timely, how it is relevant to CARLA.
  • Resources and Duration: please indicate the number of 4 hours’ sessions to be delivered. Specify the equipment needs for participants (eg. pre-installed software) and if the organizers plan to give access to students to a particular platform.
  • Audience and student’s prerequisites: a description of the intended audience, prerequisite knowledge, and the expected learning outcomes.
  • Previous editions: if the tutorial was given before, please refer where and when it was presented.
    Please refer to previous editions of CARLA to see examples of past tutorials, as in

    Each session must include at least 1 ½ hours of live guided “hands-on” practice and offer participants reference and support materials, available with free licenses, and access to hardware and software platforms as necessary. Tutorials must be delivered in-person.

    REMARKS

    • Pre-recorded and reading materials will be available only for registered students, through the RedClara platform, during courses and conference periods. Once CARLA finishes after September 25th, 2026, all materials will be available for public use. Authors must agree in advance to allow public access to their materials.
    • Pre-recorded lessons, videos and printed material must be in English. In the case of videos, it can be spoken in Spanish/Portuguese as long as English subtitles are provided (you should verify automatic online tools). Spanish and Portuguese subtitles for English spoken videos are desirable, but not mandatory.
    • The authors must coordinate with CARLA staff the availability of hardware and software resources needed for tutorials. All resources must be available for registered students free of charge, including cluster accounts, Cloud resources, and other materials. Once the CARLA conference finishes, there is not any compromise to maintain those resources available.

    Instructors should send their proposals up to July 1, 2026 to the Tutorials Chairs: