BSC hosts the PRACE Summer of HPC training week

The third edition of the Summer of HPC starts with the training week, hosted this year by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). A total of 24 European undergraduates and early stage postgraduate students will spend this week in Barcelona receiving an intensive HPC course given by BSC researchers.

Summer of HPC is a PRACE programme that offers summer placements at HPC centres across Europe to late stage undergraduates and early stage postgraduate students. Participants will spend from 29th June to 31 August 2015 working on projects related to PRACE scientific or industrial work and ideally produce a visualization or video of their results.

After this week, BSC will host two students under this program: Rumyana Rumenova, from UK, and Simos Kazantzidis, from Greece. They will learn principles of data visualization applied to the science and HPC environment, as well as data and imaging streaming technologies, as well as enjoying Barcelona and its culture. Both will be mentored by Fernando Cuchietti, Date Pre and post Processing Group Manager at BSC.

The PRACE Summer of HPC projects at BSC are:

Project Name	Student	Mentor
Collaborative interface for in-situ visualization and steering of HPC molecular dynamics simulations	Rumyana Rumenova	Fernando Cuchietti
Graphical interface for real time monitoring, automatic event detection, and alert triggering in HPC parallel software	Simos Kazantzidis	Fernando Cuchietti

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.

See Programme here