Agriculture Empowered by Supercomputing
Chairs Workshop
- Nicolás Erdödy – Director, Open Parallel Ltd. Oamaru, New Zealand.
- Juan Manuel Baruffaldi – CEO, DeepAgro. Rosario, Argentina.
Description of the workshop
Agriculture worldwide is facing massive challenges in production, distribution, pollution reduction, food security and waste: In a $4 trillion global food production industry, <40% of any crop is actually marketed. The farm, the oldest human- engineered system, produces the vast majority of human sustenance and consumes the majority of global freshwater. Its efficient operation is crucial –particularly when supply chains are disrupted by wars and pandemics.
This workshop will discuss how novel supercomputing technologies, AI and related distributed heterogeneous systems are empowering the primary sector and, as a result, stop operating in a needlessly fragile and inefficient way.
Following the “Agriculture Empowered by Supercomputing” successful meetings held at SC23 (Denver), SC24 (Atlanta) and SC25 (St. Louis) in the United States plus at ISC25 (Hamburg, Germany) and SCAsia 2026 (Osaka, Japan), we are looking forward to continuing expanding our community in Latin America through the AgroHPC workshop at CARLA2026.
Objective
Present HPC as part of a solution to complex interactions between e.g. climate change and adaptation; weather forecasting and high resolution climate models; financial and commodities markets; trade, supply chain and transportation; new algorithms and data science; plant breeding and genomics research; all intertwined with the strategic and operational decisions to be made at the farm. We hope that this workshop will inform end-users (farmers, corporations, governments) on how supercomputing could empower the primary sector while challenging technology colonisation concepts and discussing modular solutions adaptable to local conditions.
Confirmed Keynotes.
- Prof. Ewa Deelman. Research Professor and Research Director, University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute. Recipient of the IEEE Computer Society Sidney Fernbach Memorial Award (2025). AAAS, IEEE, and USC/ISI Fellow.
- Prof. Manish Parashar. Inaugural Chief AI Officer; Executive Director, Scientific Computing & Imaging Institute; and Presidential Professor, University of Utah’s Kahlert School of Computing. 2025 ACM Distinguished Service Award. AAAS, ACM, and IEEE Fellow.
- Prof. Dhabaleswar K (DK) Panda. Professor and University Distinguished Scholar of Computer Science and Engineering at the Ohio State University. Director of the NSF-AI Institute, Intelligent Cyberinfrastructure with Computational Learning in the Environment (ICICLE). 2022 IEEE Charles Babbage Award. ACM and IEEE Fellow.