ASTRONOMY

The European Union Seventh Framework Programme’s Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications (DEISA), and the United States National Science Foundation’s TeraGrid, present a joint EU-US school on High Performance Computing (HPC) Challenges in Computational Sciences, October 4-7, 2010 in Acireale, Catania, Italy.

High-level speakers from the US and Europe will address the following areas in computational science with high relevance for HPC simulations:

·        HPC Challenges and Technology

·        Challenges by Scientific Disciplines

·        Programming

·        Performance Analysis & Profiling

·        Algorithmic Approaches & Libraries

·        Data Intensive Computing and Visualization

Leading scientists in the fields of astrophysics, materials science, nanotechnology, quantum chromo dynamics, and plasma physics will present discipline-related talks. The program will benefit graduate students and postdoctoral scholars who use high performance computing to conduct research. For more information on the program and details of the venue, visit http://www.deisa.eu/Summer-School.

Apply via the web before August 29, 2010:

US Applicants: https://www.teragrid.org/deisa-tg_form.

EU applicants: http://www.deisa.eu/Summer-School/application

(EU applicants may also contact their respective DEISA site).

Applications are being accepted from advanced graduate students and postdoctoral scholars at US and EU institutions through August 29, 2010. Awards will be announced by September 6, 2010. Successful applicants will receive free lodging and meals. US attendees’ travel expenses will be paid by TeraGrid.

This program is organized and supported by DEISA and the TeraGrid. Learn more about DEISA at http://www.deisa.eu, and TeraGrid at http://www.teragrid.org.