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RedCLARA's Annual Report, corresponding to 2019, is now available on the Latin American Advanced Network website, in full both digital and PDF versions. In its sections, the report takes a tour on the guidelines that guided the work of the regional network and its key achievements in 2019, such as the progress of the BELLA Project, the institutional agreements, new services, the TICAL Conference and more.

In view of the growing demand for services for the provision of reserved instances, once again RedCLARA supports its member national academic networks and, through them, the higher education institutions in the region, through agreements that allow the provision of these instances of Microsoft Azure using the CSP Store platform. Offered by Nexsys, this platform allows the user to add, modify and cancel subscriptions, automatically, in reserved instances of Azure through web services in real time; all this with the support of a qualified and constantly evolving team.

The Ibero-American High Performance Computing Network (RICAP) announced the launch of its sixth call for access to HPC supercomputing resources. The call was created so that research groups that can hardly use supercomputing clusters to carry out their projects, can also have this type of infrastructure.

In an extra effort, the organization of the events has decided that those papers that will be selected to be presented at the Conference - which will take place on-line from August 31 to September 3 - will be rated by the audience, and the five best evaluated will receive tickets, stays and registration to participate in the Internet2 Summit of 2021 as an award. Participate with your paper until May 25 at 24:00 GMT and invite members of your academic community to register for the event, registration is free and mandatory to ensure your participation.

While awaiting the fourth session of Redollaboration Community Webinars, researchers and those interested in the topic can now review the content of the first three meetings, which are now available on the RedCLARA website and YouTube channel.

The video recording of the "Computer resources to fight the pandemic: do's and don'ts" Webinar, carried out on April 23 by a collaboration of TACC, BSC and COPPE / UFRJ, from Brazil, with the support of RedCLARA, is already available on YouTube. At the meeting, different experiences of using computer resources in the fight against the Coronavirus pandemic were presented and discussed to understand what are the best practices.