INTERNATIONAL HPC SUMMER SCHOOL 2024

The summer school is sponsored by the RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS), the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU), the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre (Pawsey) and the ACCESS program. Additional sponsors, who will conduct separate, internal selection processes, include EPCC (U.K.) and NICIS CHPC (South Africa). It is important to note that certain places for the 2024 school are still being offered on a preliminary basis and will be confirmed subject to funding availability.

The summer school will familiarize the best students in computational sciences with major state-of-the-art aspects of HPC and Big Data Analytics for a variety of scientific disciplines, catalyze the formation of networks, provide advanced mentoring, facilitate international exchange and open up further career options. Leading computational scientists and HPC technologists from partner regions will offer instruction in parallel sessions on a variety of topics such as:

• HPC and Big Data challenges in major scientific disciplines
• Shared-memory programming
• Distributed-memory programming
• GPU programming
• Performance analysis and optimization on modern CPUs and GPUs
• Software engineering
• Numerical libraries
• Big Data analytics
• Deep learning
• Scientific visualization
• Canadian, European, Japanese, Australian and U.S. HPC-infrastructures

The expense-paid program will benefit scholars from Australia, European, Japanese and U.S. institutions who use advanced computing in their research.

The ideal candidate will have many of the following qualities, however this list is not meant to be a “checklist” for applicants to meet all criteria:

• A familiarity with HPC, not necessarily an HPC expert, but rather a scholar who could benefit from including advanced computing tools and methods into their existing computational work
• A graduate student with a strong research plan or a postdoctoral fellow in the early stages of their research careers
•  Regular practice with, or interest in, parallel programming
• Applicants from any research discipline are welcome, provided their research activities include computational work.

The first two days of the program comprise two tracks that run concurrently. You need to choose your preferred track in your application.

• An introduction to shared-memory parallelism and accelerator programming.
• Advanced distributed-memory programming.

School fees, meals and housing will be covered for all accepted applicants to the summer school. Reasonable flight costs will also be covered for those travelling to/from the school.

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