European-US Summer School 2012 Announcement

Dear all HPC users,

we bring to your attention the announcement of this HPC summer school.

Sorry in advance for a possible redundancy of the information.

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2012 European-US Summer School, 24-28 June, Dublin, Ireland
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Three weeks remain before the deadline to apply to the third international Summer School on High Performance Computing (HPC) Challenges in Computational Sciences. The deadline is March 18, 2012, and details and the application are at:
https://www.xsede.org/web/summerschool12

Selected applicants will spend June 24-28, 2012, in the Royal Marine Hotel, Dublin, Ireland, learning issues related to HPC challenges and networking with experts in the field, as leading American and European computational scientists and HPC technologists present a variety of topics. The program will benefit graduate and postdoctoral students from European and U.S. institutions who currently use HPC to conduct research. Participation is free of charge to students who are selected and includes accommodations and full board in Dublin. Support for travel costs is also available to students selected to participate and who are from U.S. institutions.

Participants will stay and attend the summer school in the Royal Marine Hotel in Dun Laoghaire in south Co. Dublin. It is easily accessible to/from Dublin Airport via 24-hr coach service and 20 minutes from Dublin city center by the DART train.

The summer school is cosponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation’s Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) project and the European Union Seventh Framework Program’s Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE).

Contacts:
XSEDE
Scott Lathrop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, NCSA, United States, lathrop@illinois.edu

PRACE
Hermann Lederer, RZG, Max Planck Society, Germany, lederer@rzg.mpg.de
Simon Wong, ICHEC, Ireland, simon.wong@ichec.ie

More information on PRACE and XSEDE: www.prace-ri.eu and www.xsede.org