HPC summer school 2015

The HPC summer school brings together the HPC support team, scientific community and private sector representatives for one week of tutorials, lectures and exchange of ideas.

On the program are businesses such as CUDA, Alinea DDT, Intel tools, Intel compiler vectorization, OpenMP, D-Wave, emerging technologies, presentations from local HPC users, interest groups and much more. The week concludes with an afternoon of scientific lectures, a poster session and visit from the provost, followed by food and drinks sponsored by vendors.

View the programme

Organizers

The HPC Service and the Computational Methods Hub

Dates

28 September - 2 October, 2015

Location

Imperial College London
South Kensington campus
Huxley (building no. 13 on the map)

Registration

Let us know that you are coming and if you'd like to present a poster. You can register for individual events separately.

Register online

Name Imperial's supercomputer

The Imperial community is invited to take part in a competition to name one of the College's supercomputers.

Enter the CX2 naming competition

The Provost James Stirling CBE FRS will announce results of the naming competition on Friday, October 2nd.

Imperial College HPC prize

The Imperial College High Performance Computing prize will be awarded to early career researchers (PhD student, PDRA or equivalent level) for work that is either:

• best advance in the field of high performance computing, or,

• most effectively exploits high performance computing to achieve an advancement in another field of science or engineering.

Candidates are invited to submit a peer reviewed article published within the last two years (i.e. published after 1 September 2013), along with a short description of the significance of the work (maximum of 200 words). In the case of a multi-authored paper, the leading authors should be early career researchers.  Submissions should be sent by email to cmse@imperial.ac.uk with the subject heading Imperial College HPC prize entry before 16:00 on the 25^th of September 2015.

The winning entry will receive a cash prize of £1,000 and will be awarded by the Provost, Professor James Stirling CBE FRS on the 2^nd of October 2015.

Poster session

We invite everyone to participate in the poster session on Friday October 2nd at 16:30.  Posters can be registered during the event registration.

List of poster submissions

Video submissions

We will have a video display and invite submissions of animations and simulation videos.  You can write to us to have your videos screened during the event.

Questions?

Contact Katerina Michalickova (k.michalickova@imperial.ac.uk) for organizational issues or Simon Burbidge (s.burbidge@imperial.ac.uk).

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