ADVANCED SCHOOL ON SCIENTIFIC SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT: CONCEPTS AND TOOLS

Advanced School on scientific software development: concepts and tools

Timing: the event is to be held from 20 February to 2 March 2012.

Location: at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy.

Deadlines for requesting participation:

- 15 November 2011 (if financial support and/or visa are needed)

- 10 January 2012 (if neither financial support nor visa are needed)

Links:

- School webpage link.

- Poster link.

DIRECTORS:

Stefano COZZINI (CNR-IOM/Democritos and eLab Sissa Trieste, Italy) Antun BALAZ (Scientific Computing Laboratory, Institute of Physics Belgrade, Serbia ) Graziano GIULIANI (ICTP, ESP Section, Trieste, Italy)

The School is organized to address, eliminate and alleviate identified obstacles for young researchers to be more easily involved in software development, with specific focus on developing countries. The goal of this school is to fill the identified gap in training related to software development, and to provide young scientists with the basic skills necessary to efficiently write their own scientific codes, optimize, port and benchmark them properly, and to employ the right computational infrastructure effectively.

The school will be organized into two weeks. The first week will be dedicated to scientific software engineering concepts and tools, with emphasis on topics such as software life cycle, writing and managing scientific software, compiling, debugging, and re-using code, etc. Theoretical lectures will be combined with the practical exercises in computer laboratories where students will practice the concepts discussed during the lectures on their own scientific software project. The second week will be then entirely dedicated to completing personal group projects.

Students will work actively on their own specific software and computational problems that should be attached to the application, according to a template downloadable from the web page of the school.

Contact Information:

Antun Balaz

E-mail: antun@ipb.ac.rs

Web: http://www.scl.rs/

Phone: +381 11 3713152

Fax: +381 11 3162190

Scientific Computing Laboratory

Institute of Physics Belgrade

Pregrevica 118, 11080 Belgrade, Serbia