2008-11-03:

PRACE arranges Winter School in February 2009 in Athens

PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced for Advanced Computing, arranges a Petascale Computing Winter School in Athens on 9-13 February 2009.

The PRACE Petascale Computing Winter School will take place at the OTE Academy in Athens, hosted by the Greek Research and Technology Network. This event is aimed at researchers and students who will potentially become users of future Petascale systems in Europe. Morning lectures and discussions will be followed by hands-on training in the afternoon.

The Winter School is part of the PRACE education and training programme. Following the sucessful PRACE Summer School held in Sweden this August, the Winter School will cover advanced topics like multi-core programming, next generation high performance computing languages, and parallel debugging tools. The obective is to enable students to solve problems in scalable scientific computing.

Registration for the Winter School will open in December 2008.

More information about the Winter School can be found on the Winter School website.

About PRACE: The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) prepares the creation of a persistent pan-European HPC service, consisting of 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. The PRACE project receives funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement RI-211528.

The following countries collaborate in the PRACE project: Germany (project coordinator), Austria, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Ireland, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and UK.