Introduction

Join us for the seventh edition of CyberColombia's International School series, focusing this year on the dynamic field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). This event is designed to provide students, researchers, and professionals from both the private and public sectors with in-depth technical talks and hands-on training. Participants will gain valuable insights and practical skills in using high-performance computing (HPC) technologies.

Learning Objectives

  • Develop an understanding of the fundamentals of parallel computing, including computer architecture, race conditions, threads and processes, as well as performance metrics.
  • Gain familiarity with the basic principles of programming in C/C++, covering syntax, compilation, and tools such as Make and CMake.
  • Be introduced to parallel programming using OpenMP and multithreading concepts, aiming to leverage multiple processing cores.
  • Become acquainted with distributed programming using MPI, including point-to-point communication and collective operations in distributed memory systems.
  • Explore modern tools such as Dask for high-level parallel programming oriented toward large-scale data analysis.
  • Gain insight into how high-performance computing may integrate with artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Host Universities

The event will be held in-person in the different reception sites:

Site Application Contact
Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas (Bogotá) Apply doctoradoing@udistrital.edu.co
Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia (Boyacá) on-site jorge.otalora@uptc.edu.co
Universidad Autonoma de Occidente (Cali) Apply ohmondragon@uao.edu.co
Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Bogotá) Apply wfoquendop@unal.edu.co
Universidad de Cartagena (Cartagena) on-site pringsistemas@unicartagena.edu.co
Universidad EAFIT (Medellín) Apply akcastror@eafit.edu.co
Universidad Javeriana (Bogota) Apply zine@javeriana.edu.co
Universidad del Norte (Barranquilla) Apply ccpinilla@uninorte.edu.co
Universidad de Medellín (Medellín) on-site jpfernandez@udemedellin.edu.co
Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá) Apply aa.vivas@uniandes.edu.co

In addition, you can contact Aurelio Vivas: aa.vivas@uniandes.edu.co

Important dates

Event June 16 - 18, 2025 (GMT-5)
Registration (Host Sites) opens Jan 20, 2025
Registration (Host sites) closes March 05, 2025
Registration (Students) opens March 31 2025
Registration (Students) closes June 07, 2025
Scholarship opens May 09, 2025
Scholarship closes June 07, 2025

Format

In-Person

Programme

Meet the detailed program and speakers resume here

Data and Materials

  1. Cloud-Native Scientific Data at Scale: Efficient Access and Analysis with Zarr in HPC Environments - Alfonso Ladino-Rincon (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
  2. Building and Evolving a Multilingual LLM from Scratch - Javier Aula-Blasco (Barcelona Supercomputing Center)
  3. Parallel Computing Fundamentals (Tutorial) - Carlos Alvarez (Tecnológico de Monterrey)
  4. C++ Fundamentals (Tutorial) - Carlos Alvarez (Tecnológico de Monterrey)
  5. Parallel Programming with OpenMP (Tutorial) - Jose Monsalve (Advanced Micro Devices)
  6. Convergencia HPC & IA (Tutorial) - Carlos Alvarez (Tecnológico de Monterrey)
  7. State of IA Accelerators - Sid Raskar (Argonne National Laboratory)
  8. Distributed Programming with MPI (Tutorial) - Esteban Hernadez (CyberColombia)
  9. Parallel and Distributed Programming with Python (Tutorial) - Aurelio Vivas (Universidad de los Andes), Alfonso Ladino (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Partners

Speakers & Mentors

Alfonso Ladino-Rincon, PhD
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Javier Aula-Blasco, PhD
Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Siddhisanket (Sid) Raskar, PhD
Argonne National Laboratory

Aurelio Vivas, PhD(c) Universidad de los Andes

Esteban Hernández, PhD
CyberColombia

Jose Monsalve, PhD Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)

Carlos Álvarez, PhD Tecnológico de Monterrey

Organizing Committee

Aurelio Vivas, PhD(c)

Esteban Hernández, PhD

Jose Monsalve, PhD

Carlos Álvarez, PhD

Co-organizers

Dr. Clara Bermudez Universidad Nacional

Dr. William Oquendo Universidad Nacional

Dr. Edison Valencia Universidad Eafit

Dr. Elvis Gaona Universidad Distrital

Dr. Carlos Pinilla Universidad del Norte

Dr. Camilo Espejo Universidad del Norte

Dr. Oscar Mondragon Universidad Autonoma de Occidente

Msc. Helmut Rubio Universidad Autonoma de Occidente

Dr. Juan Torres Universidad Javeriana

Dr. Juan Fernandez Universidad de Medellín

Dr. Javier Montoya Universidad de Cartagena

Msc. Amaury Cabarcas Universidad de Cartagena

Dr. Jorge Otalora Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia

Dr. Andres Medaglia Universidad de Los Andes

Dr. David Álvarez Universidad de Los Andes

Dr. Harold Castro Universidad de Los Andes

CyberColombia Scholarship Awardees

Angela Perdomo Universidad Industrial de Santander

Cristian Pacheco Universidad del Valle

Karen Castañeda Universidad Sergio Arboleda

Natalia Remolina Unaffiliated

Sergio Rojas Universidad Iberoamericana

Jhonathan Guerrero Universidad Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Santiago Olave Universidad del Valle

Student Volunteers

Name University
Alan Escamilla Universidad de Cartagena
Sebastian Abdala Universidad de Cartagena
Andrés Arnedo Universidad de Cartagena
Jaime Navarro Universidad de Cartagena
Kevin Martínez Universidad de Cartagena
Cristian Palacio Universidad de Cartagena
Cristian Camilo Castro Castellanos Universidad Distrital
Richar Javier Chia Jiménez Universidad Distrital
Laura Milena Perez Herrera Universidad Javeriana
Karem Ruiz Araujo Universidad Javeriana
Hernán David de la Torre Castro Universidad del Norte
Juan Esteban Pérez Cardozo Universidad del Norte
Darcy Vanessa Mina Carabalí Universidad Autónoma
Miguel Angel Rojas Garreta Universidad Autónoma
Cristian Celis Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia
Luis Rodriguez Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia
Harold Alvarado Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia
Jhojan Stiven Zea Fernández Universidad de Medellín
Luis Carlos Arenas Villamizar Universidad de Medellín
David López Rivera Universidad de Medellín
Santiago Rodriguez Mojica Universidad EAFIT
Sebastian Adair Amaya Ceballos Universidad EAFIT
Juan Manuel Gomez Piedrahita Universidad EAFIT
Sebastian Andres Uribe Ruiz Universidad EAFIT
Julian Estiven Valencia Bolaños Universidad EAFIT
Jose Alejandro Cubillos Munoz Universidad de los Andes
Isaac David Bermudez Lara Universidad de los Andes

AMD Day 2025

AMD Day is a co-located event we’re organizing with AMD to discuss topics related to parallel computing architectures and Programming Models for AI Applications.

Visit the AMD Day 2025 website