View source for PRACE and VI-SEEM Spring School

The PRACE 2017 Spring School will be a joint training event with the VI-SEEM project and will be organised by CaSToRC at The Cyprus Institute.

The school will be a 3-day event starting Tuesday 25 April and ending Thursday 27 April 2017.

The Seasonal School will provide insights into topics of high interest to people of the PRACE, VI-SEEM and European communities and will have two parallel sessions - a Developer Track and aSystem Administration Track.

===The Developer Track includes (among others) the following topics:===
* Introduction to Parallel and Scalable Machine Learning: Basics and Parallelization Benefits
* Introduction to Deep Learning with Convolutional Neural Networks & Applications
* Accelerator Programming: GPU and Xeon Phi
* Data Visualisation: Information visualization, visual analytics, VisIt

Speakers from the EUDAT, OpenSESAME and VI-SEEM projects will also present these project and relevant case studies.

For more details on the Developer Track please visit the link below:
https://events.prace-ri.eu/event/601/program#developerTrack

===The System Administration Track includes (among others) the following topics:===
* System Administration Tools: Easybuild and other tools
* Security Aspects of HPC Centers
* PRACE Network and Monitoring Issues* System Monitoring
* Cloud Services - OpenStack
** OpenStack and HPC, the crossroads of scientific research
** How to build your first OpenStack Cloud
** Considerations for maximising the performance of OpenStack
** RDMA enabled fabrics in an OpenStack environment
** IOPS in the cloud – impossible! Or is it?
** Case studies from HPC centres using OpenStack for HPC workloads.

For more details on the System Administration Track please visit the link below:
https://events.prace-ri.eu/event/601/program#systemAdministrationTrack
 
A Keynote Address will also be given by the Winner of the 1st PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC – Dr Zoe Cournia.

'''Useful Links:'''
*Seasonal School Homepage
**https://events.prace-ri.eu/event/601/
*Scientific Programme
**https://events.prace-ri.eu/event/601/program
*Event Timetable
**https://events.prace-ri.eu/event/601/timetable/
*Registration
**https://events.prace-ri.eu/event/601/registration/