South American-African Astronomy Coordination Committee SA3CC

03/31/2026

Congratulations, Dr. Julio Ibarra for the FIU Presidential Excellence Award!!!!!

03/09/2026

The AmLight International Research and Education (R&E) network has activated 1 terabits per second (Tbps) of bandwidth capacity between Boca Raton, Florida and Fortaleza, Brazil, and 1.2 Tbps between Fortaleza and São Paulo, Brazil.
https://www.amlight.net/?p=6489

02/26/2026

01/15/2026

🌟 Kick-Start Your Career in Cyberinfrastructure with STEP! 🌟

Are you an undergraduate curious about high-performance computing, cybersecurity, networking, or software engineering? The Student Training and Engagement Program (STEP) is a paid, immersive, multi-phase experience designed to help you explore cutting-edge cyberinfrastructure careers while working alongside industry and research experts. Start with a two-week, all-expenses-paid experience in Miami, then dive into hands-on summer projects, real-world systems, and professional development—plus travel, housing, stipends, and national conference opportunities, including Supercomputing (SC). Continue building deep expertise during the academic year with part-time project work and mentorship. If you’re ready to gain practical skills, clarify your career path, and join a growing, high-impact workforce, apply by February 1, 2026, and take your first step into the future of cyberinfrastructure! 🚀

Student Training and Engagement ProgramGeneral Information about the Student Training and Engagement Program (STEP)This  program is intended for undergraduates who are interested in pursuing careers in cyberinfrastructure! Our goal is to provide students with exposure to these careers in an effort ...

01/07/2026

AI Meets CI at the upcoming NSF CI Compass virtual workshop Intelligent Infrastructure for Major & Midscale Facilities: January 12, 13, and 14, 2026
Check the Lightning Talks for updated from FIU/AmLight International by Dr. Julio Ibarra.

The vision for NSF CI Compass is to be the leader in supporting and enhancing the national CI ecosystem that includes people, practical knowledge, and processes to facilitate knowledge sharing and discovery across the National Science Foundation's Major Facilities

12/18/2025

May your well-deserved winter break lead into a new year filled with high-bandwidth and programmable switches, resilient storage, powerful computational nodes, and an abundance of GPUs to fuel curiosity, collaboration, and boundary-pushing, AI-enabled research and education.

Thank you for your continued support and partnership!
We look forward to working together and advancing science-driven innovation in the years to come.
The AmLight Team

12/17/2025

FABRIC Expands High-Speed Connectivity with New 100-Gigabit Link Between Miami and Atlanta

FABRIC successfully deployed a dedicated 100-gigabit network link connecting its Miami edge node at Florida International University (FIU) to a core FABRIC site in Atlanta. This connection enhanced the strength of FABRIC’s nationwide footprint and provides researchers with a high-capacity, Layer 1 path designed specifically for reproducible, experimental networking at scale. The link, one of two 100-gigabit connections at the FIU site, serves as a critical piece of infrastructure enabling controlled, end-to-end experiments between FABRIC’s programmable resources. As FIU’s Jeronimo Bezerra noted, the dedicated fiber “ensures FABRIC can achieve its reproducible goals… because there’s nobody else on that link other than FABRIC.”....

https://learn.fabric-testbed.net/knowledge-base/fabric-expands-high-speed-connectivity-with-new-100-gigabit-link-between-miami-and-atlanta/

10/30/2025

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Work with cutting-edge global research networking projects right here in sunny Miami, where palm trees replace snowflakes and innovation never takes a season off.
Go to https://hr.fiu.edu/careers/ >>search for Job ID 536256

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10/17/2025

Exciting news from the KNIT 11 FABRIC Community Workshop! Luis Marin Vera, IT Assistant Director at Florida International University (FIU), presented the groundbreaking AtlanticWave-SDX project — an innovative software-defined exchange (SDX) enabling dynamic, programmable, and high-performance network connectivity across the Americas. His showcase highlighted how AtlanticWave-SDX is transforming collaborative research by automating network workflows and enhancing data movement between global science communities. A great example of FIU’s leadership in advancing next-generation cyberinfrastructure and empowering open science! 🚀

09/19/2025

Here is something to brighten your Friday

First Ever Images from the Vera Rubin Telescope

The Vera C. Rubin telescope has just released its first images, and they’re spectacular. If you love learning about science as much as I do, head to http://...