2008-05-06:

PRACE Summer School - Introduction to High-Performance Computing

The summer school "Introduction to High-Performance Computing" is a 2-week course organized by the PRACE project and the Swedish National Graduate School in Scientific Computing (NGSSC). It will be held August 18-29, 2008, at the Parallelldatorcentrum (PDC) at KTH in Stockholm.

The Notur project offers upto eight grants for attending the summer school. The grant covers registration fees and travel expenses (Economy Class round-trip train or flight ticket from your home city) for master or PhD students from Norwegian universities, university colleges or research organizations. Food or accommodation is not covered by the grant.

Topics that are covered are programming environments, parallel programming paradigms (MPI and OpenMP), modern computer architectures, parallel algorithms, efficient programming, case studies and tools for performance measurement. The topics are covered by means of overview lectures given by experts, in-depth technical lectures and hands-on computer lab sessions. The course will consist of about 35 hours of lectures and 35 hours of computer lab sessions.

Deadline for registration is June 2, but may close earlier in case available capacity has been reached (ca. 80 people). Registration needs to be done on the web pages of the summer school. Proof of registration needs to be sent to UNINETT Sigma to be eligible for a grant. The grants will be distributed on a first-come-first-serve basis. Expenses will be reimbursed by sending UNINETT Sigma the standard travel reimbursement forms that are used by the institution to which the student is affiliated.

The web page for the summer school.

Further information about the grants can be obtained by contacting UNINETT Sigma: sigma@uninett.no

PRACE. The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe prepares the creation of a persistent pan-European HPC service, consisting several tier-0 centres providing European researchers with access to capability computers and forming the top level of the European HPC ecosystem. PRACE is a project funded in part by the EU's 7th Framework Programme.