Third LinkSCEEM General User Meeting June 2013

Event Dates: June 25, 2013 – 9:00am – June 27, 2013 – 5:00pm

The LinkSCEEM-2 FP7 project is organising a 3-day general user meeting, during June 25-27, 2013 in Alexandria Egypt. The General User Meeting is part of the LinkSCEEM-2 project training activities aiming to prepare the Eastern Mediterranean scientific community for the use of HPC systems. The meeting targets young researchers from the region and will address programming training needs of current and prospective HPC users both from Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean. During the first day of the event the participants will receive general HPC training. In the following 2 days each participant has to select one of the following four parallel training sessions: 1) Parallel Programming: MPI and OpenMP, 2) HPC for Bioinformatics, 3) Molecular Dynamics Simulation tools (LAMMPS), 4) Materials Science: Quantum-Espresso. The programme will contain theoretical and hands-on training sessions to enable deep understanding of the concepts and their application on modern HPC. Trainees will be given access to the Biblioteca Alexandrina HPC systems where they will be able to carry out the hands-on exercises and practice what they have learned.

General User Meeting Details

The user meeting will be held at the conference center of Biblioteca Alexandrina at Alexandria Egypt.

Language:English (materials will be published in English)

Registration

There are 25 funded competitive fellowships available to attend the general user meeting. Additionally, a further 10 fellowships will be awarded under the Middle East Women Engaged in Mathematics and Science (MEWEMS) LinkSCEEM-2 program. Both fellowships will provide financial contribution to flights and accommodation costs.

Fellowships will be awarded to suitable candidates who:
1.   Are involved in Computational Science/HPC research projects or studies
2.   Identify how attending the general user meeting can help them in their future work.
3.   Have programming experience in either C, Fortran or a similar high level programming language.

The selection committee should choose the participants at the event based on the criteria outlined below:

1. relevance of background to the workshop topic

2. country of residence (Eastern Mediterranean prioritised see*)

3. stage of career (young researchers/graduates preferred)

*Eastern Mediterranean countries are defined as: 1. Core countries: Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Cyprus Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Palestine, Greece 2. Neighboring countries: Saudi Arabia, Libya, Iraq

How to apply:

Applicants should fill in the following on-line form by 19 May 2013 to express their interest in attending the General User meeting

http://cyprusinstitute.limequery.org/21658/lang-en

For more information, please visit

http://www.linksceem.eu/ls2/component/rsevents/event/26-Third-linksceem-general-user-meeting-june-2013.html