Summer School 2016 on HPC Challenges in Computational Sciences
Richard Fienberg AAS Solar Eclipse Task Force
This announcement is posted on behalf of Scott Lathrop, NCSA/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:
Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars from institutions in Canada, Europe, Japan, and the United States are invited to apply for the seventh International Summer School on High-Performance Computing (HPC) Challenges in Computational Sciences, to be held 26 June to 1 July 2016 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Applications are due 15 February 2016. The summer school is sponsored by the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) with funds from the US National Science Foundation, Compute/Calcul Canada, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE), and the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (RIKEN AICS).
Leading American, European, and Japanese computational scientists and HPC technologists will offer instruction on a variety of topics, including:
- HPC challenges by discipline (e.g, Earth, life, and materials sciences; physics)
- HPC programming proficiencies
- Performance analysis & profiling
- Algorithmic approaches & numerical libraries
- Data-intensive computing
- Scientific visualization
- Canadian, EU, Japanese, and US HPC infrastructures
The expense-paid program will benefit advanced scholars from Canadian, European, Japanese, and US institutions who use HPC to conduct research. Interested students should apply by 15 February 2016. Meals and housing will be covered for the selected participants, also travel from outside Europe. Applications from graduate students and postdocs in all science and engineering fields are welcome. Preference will be given to applicants with parallel programming experience and a research plan that will benefit from the utilization of high-performance computing systems.