PRACE Summer of HPC at BSC

01 Agosto 2013

Summer of HPC is a summer placement programme for undergraduate and postgraduate students that offers summer placements at HPC centres across Europe and runs from July 1st to August 30th 2013. BSC has participated with two students.

Summer of HPC is a programme for undergraduate and postgraduate students that offers a summer placement at HPC centres across Europe and runs from July 1st to August 30th 2013. A total of 24 top applicants from across Europe have been selected to participate. They are spending two months working on projects related to PRACE technical or industrial work and produce a visualization or video of their results.

In the first edition of this programme, BSC has participated with two students: Vito Simonka, from Slovenia, and Vojtech Bardiovsky, and Slovakia. They are currently familiarizing themselves with the BSC programming model OmpSs and tools such as PARAVER and DIMEMAS, as well as enjoying Barcelona and its culture.

The research projects at BSC are:

Project Name Student Mentor
Parallelization of Facial Attribute Classifiers Vojtech Bardiovsky Nacho Navarro
Task Based Parallelization using a top-down approach Vito Simonka Rosa M. Badia


The PRACE Summer of HPC is an example of one of the variety of education and mobility activities carried out at BSC. Following its mission to become an educational centre of excellence, BSC provides training and professional opportunities addressed to students, researchers and industry (Master’s degrees, PhDs, workshops, etc.). Please visit our HPC Education and Training page for more information.