BSC hosts the PRACE Summer of HPC training week

29 June 2015

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