European-US Summer School 2012 in Dublin, 24-28 June Posted on 6 March 2012

Dublin will host the third European-U.S. Summer School on High Performance Computing (HPC) Challenges in Computational Sciences. The application deadline is 18 March 2012. Further information on the school and the online application form are at:

https://www.xsede.org/web/summerschool12

Selected applicants will spend June 24-28, 2012, in the Royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghaire, 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 the Royal Marine Hotel. Support for travel costs is also available to students selected to participate and who are from U.S. institutions.

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 at illinois.edu )

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

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