Call for Fellowship Applications for Third LinkSCEEM Cross-Sectional HPC Workshop
November 11-15, 2012 - Cairo University, Egypt
Application Deadline – October 9, 2012
The LinkSCEEM-2 FP7 project in collaboration with the American University of Cairo (AUC) and the Faculty of Computers and Information - Cairo University (FCI-CU) are jointly organizing a five day 2-workshop training event between November 11-15, 2012.
- Lectures on November 11-12, 2012 will be held at Cairo University and will include introductory courses and hands-on training on parallel computing.
- On November 13-15, 2012, the LinkSCEEM 3-day Cross Sectional HPC Workshop will be held at the American University in Cairo. Lectures will include four parallel training sessions in selected scientific fields targeted towards participants’ interests. The four parallel sessions will be the following:
- Structural and Computational Biophysics (featured software: NAMD2)
- Real-Time Density Functional Theory (DFT) based Simulation (featured software: Octopus)
- Scientific Simulation and Analysis (featured software: Geant4 & Root)
- Computational Nanoscience (featured software: TBD)
The LinkSCEEM-2 FP7 project would like to announce fellowship opportunities for advanced High Performance Computing (HPC) training during the Third LinkSCEEM Cross Sectional HPC Workshop from November 13-15 , 2012 at the American University in Cairo.
The workshop targets young researchers from the region and will address programming training needs of current and prospective HPC users from various computational scientific fields.
Access to LinkSCEEM HPC infrastructure will be provided for training purposes. Hands-on guidance in preparing projects for HPC usage will be given during the workshop.
A number of competitive funded LinkSCEEM fellowships are available for this workshop. Twenty fellowships will cover the workshop attendance fee cost and will also provide financial contribution to flights and accommodation costs (3 nights single room accommodation or 5 nights for shared room accommodation). Further fellowships will only cover the workshop attendance fee cost.
Fellowships will be awarded to candidates who:
- Are experienced and are involved in Computational Science/HPC research projects or studies.
- Identify how attending the workshop can help them in their future work.
LinkSCEEM workshop participants are encouraged to attend the introductory workshop to be held on the 11th and 12th of November.
Special hotel rates can be made available for LinkSCEEM participants who will accept shared rooms - where the cost of 5 nights shared accommodation will be equivalent to 3 nights single room accommodation.
Important Dates:
- Registration opens: September 20, 2012
- Registration deadline: October 9, 2012
- Notification of acceptance: October 12, 2012
Registration:
Applicants should visit http://cyprusinstitute.limequery.org/56753/lang-en to express their interest in attending the Third LinkSCEEM Cross Sectional workshop.
More Information:
More information about the program of the workshop can be found in the following LinkSCEEM webpage: http://www.linksceem.eu/ls2/news-and-activities/events/events/event/19-third-linksceem-cross-sectional-hpc-workshop.html
Please keep in mind that the above webpage may be regularly updated.
For more information please contact: Thekla Loizou.at https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&source=mailto&to=t.loizou@cyi.ac.cy.
About LinkSCEEM-2: The LinkSCEEM-2 project (www.linksceem.eu) aims at the establishment of a HPC eco-system in the Eastern Mediterranean region by interlinking and coordinating regional compute, storage and visualization resources to form an integrated e-infrastructure. The main project objective is to enable scientific research in the region by engaging and supporting research communities with an initial emphasis in the fields of climate research, digital cultural heritage and synchrotron applications. To achieve its mission, the project will link e-resources, provide user support and training, carry out targeted networking activities, and, develop and implement a well-structured HPC resource allocation mechanism. LinkSCEEM-2 receives EC funding through grant RI261600.
