Advanced School of Parallel Computing

 The school took place from the 10th to the 14th of October. You can follow the lessons in streaming!!

The Advanced School of Parallel Computing is an intense, 5 day, graduate level course in high performance computing. It  will explore in more detail the subjects presented in the Summer School.  

This year the school will be focused on GPGPU programming for the best exploitation of the new Linux Cluster equipped with GPUs that will be available at CINECA soon. Some use cases will also be presented.The school will be held on 10-14 October and the official language will be English.

The school is aimed at final year master students, PhD students, and young researchers in computational sciences and engineering, with different backgrounds, interested in applying the emerging technologies on high performance computing to their research. The school will cover the following topics:

• CUDA, pyCUDA
• OpenCL
• PGI compiler (CUDA-Fortran and accelerator directives)
• Hybrid programming with CUDA
• Allinea DDT 3.0 debugger
• Use cases on GPGPU programming

Download the documentation

The number of participants has been extended to 27 students thanks to the support of NVIDIA. Applicants will be selected according to their experience and qualifications. Knowledge of a high level programming language (C/C++ or FORTRAN) is required, as well as a working experience in parallel programming.

Attendance is free. Grants up to 250 EUR are available for partecipants not funded by their institution and not coming from the Bologna area. Lunch will be provided by CINECA. Each student will be given a two month access to the CINECA's supercomputing resources.

Application deadline: August 31, 2011

The list of admitted applicants will be published on September 15, 2011

Professional stages: In order to complete the training, up to 3 partecipants could be offered an apprenticeship of 3 months at CINECA. The applicants will be involved in the development of computational projects and will receive a financial contribution of 500 EUR per month.

How to reach us: The school will be held at the CINECA supercomputing center, via Magnanelli 6/3, Casalecchio di Reno (Bologna), from monday to friday of each week. CINECA is located 9 Km from the Bologna Airport, 12 Km from the centre of Bologna.  More details.

Accommodation: we can propose you a list of hotels in the neighborhood or in Bologna. If the hotel has an agreement with CINECA, specify you are attending the school at booking time in order to obtain a discounted rate.

Please contact the school secretariat for further information.