The HPC Advisory Council will hold the Switzerland HPC Workshop in March 2010 together with the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (www.cscs.ch).

The workshop will be dedicated to HPC training (interconnect architecture and advanced features, network management, HPC storage, CPU technologies, High performance visualization, accelerators and more). This is an excellent training and education opportunity for HPC IT professionals. The 3-day conference is free for attendees and we already have registrants from both Swiss National Supercomputing Centre and several universities in Switzerland, Italy and more.
Registration is required. For registration information please go to http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/switzerland_workshop/attendee_reg.php.
The workshop includes coffee breaks and lunch courtesy of the HPC Advisory Council.
 
Call for speakers and presentations are now open. Please go to
http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/switzerland_workshop/speakers_reg.php
to sign-up. Please use this link if you intend to propose HPC training sessions.

An intermediate and advanced level treatment of all the essential ingredients for achieving high performance in scientific computing on modern supercomputers.

More information: http://www.csc.fi/english/csc/courses/archive/code-opt-10

Register by March 17.

The first CSC Summer School takes place on 12-20 June 2010. It is aimed for graduate students working with computational sciences, e.g. computational chemistry, physics, biosciences, or engineering; also undergraduates as well as post-docs will find the school very useful.

The contents consist of lectures and hands-on training on parallel programming, code optimization and advanced usage of popular scientific programs. The venue is Solvalla Sports Institute in Nuuksio National Park in Espoo, Finland.

Visit www.csc.fi/hpc/summerschool for more information!

Registration for the event is open on the event website.

See more information from the pdf flyer.

Programme and more information:

http://www.inria.fr/actualites/colloques/cea-edf-inria/2010/hpc/programme.en.html

During two intensive summer weeks at the KTH campus students will be able to learn and improve their skills in writing efficient programs for serial and parallel scientific applications.

The course carries 7.5 ECTS (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System), where 1.5 ECTS credits are equivalent to one week's workload of 40 hours.  The student receives these credits on successful completion of the post-course project.  Participants are strongly encouraged to bring their own problems or programs for discussion and to possibly use as the basis of the post-course project.  Participants are provided with remote access to the PDC Linux clusters such as Ferlin (Dell Harpertown), Hebb (IBM Blue Gene), and Key (HP Itanium SMP).  Industrial participation is welcome.  The number of seats for all participants is limited.

Registration will open March 1st.

Outline

A number of topics will be covered in overview lectures given by international experts and in-depth technical lectures followed by hands-on computer lab sessions.  The course will consist of about 35 hours of lectures and 35 hours of computer lab sessions.  Among the
topics:

• Programming Environments at PDC

• Parallel Programming

• Modern Computer Architectures

• Parallel Algorithms

• Efficient Programming

• Case Studies

Computer Laboratories

Roughly half of the class time will be spent hands-on in the lab.  The lecturers and the PDC staff will assist in the computer labs.
Students who do not already have an account at PDC will receive one.
These accounts will stay active after the course so students may work on the post-course project.

PDC

Visiting address:  Teknikringen 14, Plan 4, KTH, Stockholm
Mail: PDC, KTH, SE-100 44 Stockholm
Summer School Email: summer-2010-info(at)pdc.kth.se
URL: http://www.pdc.kth.se/
Phone: +46 8 790 78 00
Fax: +46 8 24 77 84

More information and registration

To register, and find out more about the class, visit the course Web page at http://www.pdc.kth.se/education/summer-school/