International HPC Summer School July 2025

Introduction

Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars from institutions in Canada, Europe, Japan, Australia, or the United States are invited to apply for the 14th International High Performance Computing (HPC) Summer School, to be held on July 6-11, 2025 in Lisbon, Portugal, sponsored by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) via the HPC SPECTRA project in Europe, the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre (Pawsey) in Australia, the Digital Research Alliance of Canada (DRAC), the RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) in Japan, the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and the University of Texas at Austin in the U.S., along with other organizations from South Africa (NICIS CHPC and NITheCS) and the U.K. (EPCC).

Summer School Topics

The summer school helps students with learning more in computational sciences with major state-of-the-art aspects of HPC and Big Data Analytics for a variety of scientific disciplines, advancing the formation of professional networks, being provided with advanced mentoring, facilitating international exchange and opening up further career options.

Leading computational scientists and HPC technologists from partner regions will offer instruction in parallel sessions on a variety of topics. Sample technical topics include:

• HPC and Big Data challenges in major scientific disciplines
• Shared-memory programming
• Distributed-memory programming
• GPU programming
• Performance analysis and optimization on modern CPUs and GPUs
• Software engineering
• Numerical libraries
• Big Data analytics
• Deep learning
• Scientific visualization
• Australian, Canadian, European, Japanese, and U.S. HPC-infrastructures

Application and Cost

School fees, meals, and housing will be covered for all accepted applicants to the summer school. Reasonable flight costs will also be covered for those traveling to/from the school. The application deadline is 23:59 AOE on January 31, 2025.

For more information and to apply please visit the International HPC Summer School July 2025 event page.