The Centre for High Performance Computing, Cape Town, is pleased to announce the third High Performance Computing School for graduate students. The course will be hosted by the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and The Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST).
*NOTE* The deadline for applications has been extended
to Monday 20 June 2011.
The HPC School is aimed at recent B.Sc. (Hons) or B.Eng. graduates, and new M.Sc or Ph.D. students in the fields of computational chemistry, applied mathematics, physics, computational biology, bioinformatics, computer science, engineering or related subjects with a strong computing content.
The course will cover the concepts and theory of parallel computers, and programming for parallel systems with MPI, OpenMP and CUDA, using the C, Fortran or python programming languages.
Students need to have second year mathematics or applied mathematics (or equivalent) and programming experience in a high level language: C, Fortran or python.
Students who have a strong background in numerical methods and GNU Octave or Matlab (or Maple or Mathematica) or other programming languages (eg. Java) may also qualify.
The HPC School will run from Sunday 3 July to Sunday 10 July and will take place at the School of Computer Science and the School of Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
There are no fees for successful applicants. The CHPC will cover the costs of accommodation during the HPC School as well as local return air travel to Johannesburg for students from outside Gauteng.
Eligible applicants should be registered at a South African University in 2011 or be accepted for graduate study at a South African university in 2011/2012 — proof of registration or acceptance must be provided.
Should you wish to attend the High Performance Computing School kindly complete the registration form at the CHPC HPC School web site:
and email the completed form (in DOC, RTF or ODT formats only) back to
workshop@chpc.ac.za by
08h00 Monday 20 June 2011.
Successful candidates will be contacted on 22 June 2011.
