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  • Second EU/US Summer School on HPC Challenges in Computational Sciences

    The NSF TeraGrid, the European Union's DEISA and PRACE are pleased to announce the second joint EU-US summer school on High Performance Computing (HPC) Challenges in Computational Science.
    Applications from qualified candidates will be accepted through April 25, 2011.
    Participants will be selected and notified via email by May 9, 2011.

    August 7-11, 2011

    Lake Tahoe, California


  • George Michael Memorial HPC Ph.D. Fellowships

    In memory of George Michael, one of the founding fathers of the SC Conference series, this award honors exceptional Ph.D. students throughout the world whose focus areas are on high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis. Sponsored by ACM, IEEE Computer Society and the SC11 Conference, this award will be presented during a special session at the conference.
    Submissions due: April 30, 2011




  • 2011 Open Science Grid Summer School

    Apply now for the 2011 OSG Summer School, where you can learn to harness the power of distributed computing while spending a week at the beautiful University of Wisconsin-Madison. Successful applicants will have all travel and expenses paid for both the summer school and the annual TeraGrid '11 Conference paid for by the OSG.

    June 26–30, 2011

    Madison, WI


    • Upcoming Events for Educators




    Past events

    Seminar Series

    This fall, the National Institute for Computational Science (NICS), a high-performance computing center administered by UTK, will offer a series of tutorials and seminars designed to provide UTK students, faculty and staff with practical information about using its resources, as well as other associated opportunities for participation and collaboration.

    All the seminars and tutorials in the series will be given by NICS and RDAV personnel and will be held on Thursdays from 2-4pm, in Claxton 233. A detailed list of session topics can be viewed at http://igmcs.utk.edu/seminars.

    Virtual School for Computational Science and Engineering

    The Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering (VSCSE) helps graduate students, post-docs and young professionals from all disciplines and institutions across the country gain the skills they need to use advanced computational resources to advance their research.

    The National Computational Science Institute (NCSI) is offering a selection of week-long hands-on workshops for undergraduate faculty from among all fields of study. The workshops are directed at improving understanding of computational thinking, modeling and visualization tools and resources, and applying computational methods to advance education and research. The objective is to work with faculty to incorporate computational science and engineering tools, resources and methods into undergraduate classrooms across the nation to prepare undergraduate students for careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

    Information and registration for this Summer’s workshops can be found by following the “Summer 2010 Workshops” link on the NCSI website – www.computationalscience.org/workshops .

    Workshop registration policies can be found at - www.computationalscience.org/about/policy

    Note: No travel funds are available, but limited funds are available for support for local housing and meals. Please be sure to indicate your housing need on the workshop reservation form.

    The summer workshop offerings include:

    • Computational Biology for Biology Educators – July 18-24 - North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Greensboro, NC
      • Workshop flyer at - http://www.computationalscience.org/snapmedia/content//ncsi/cbbe/cbbe2010flyer.pdf
    • Introduction to Computational Thinking
      • July 11-17 - Merrimack College, North Andover, MA
      • July 25-31 - Houston Community College System, Houston, TX
      • August 8-12 - George Mason University, Fairfax, VA (TARGETED AT PRE-COLLEGE TEACHERS!!)
    • Parallel and Cluster Computing
      • First Look – June 27 – July 3 - Kean University, Union, NJ
      • Second Look – August 8-14 - University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

    NCSA's Bob Wilhelmson instructs students during the 2009 Scaling to Petascale summer school course.

    Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering Summer School 2009: Scaling to Petascale August 7-9, 2009

    This Virtual School summer school provided graduate students with knowledge of the challenges, opportunities, techniques, and evolving resources for scaling science and engineering codes onto petascale computing systems.

    At the end of the summer school participants understood:

    • The techniques for coding on highly parallel architectures
    • Code optimization and debugging techniques in a highly parallel environment
    • The challenges in developing highly parallel codes including use of numerical libraries, parallel I/O challenges, compiler technologies
    • The evolving computational environment for conducting science
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    ONRL Biophysics Summer School 2009

    The summer school was held at UT Conference Center, 600 Henley Street, Knoxville, TN 37902, on August 3-5, 2009. The participants arrived on August 2. Only public information was presented.

    The scientific program consisted of 18 lectures by leading scientists.
    It started in the morning of August 3 and ended at 5 p.m. on August 5. We had a dinner poster session on August 4 in which participants were presented with interdisciplinary research opportunities at ORNL and the University of Tennessee.



    The Krell Institute works in active partnership with the science, technology, and education communities. Krell is offering fellowships for graduate students pursuing PhD's in computation science fields. Please follow the link in the logo to find more information

    Krell is involved in the areas of
    • developing the workforce
    • communicating science
    • bringing people together
    • innovating with technology

    TeraGrid Bridge Day

    The TeraGrid Bridge Day is a workshop for middle and high school teachers to create new activities for their students to begin to think computationally.

    Blog about TG Bridge Day

    Past Event Tutorials



    TG 11 Tutorial




    NICS Education and Training Partners

    NICS supports TeraGrid users and works to bring information about TeraGrid resources to the scientific community.

    		 Oak Ridge Associated Universities partners with NICS in funding four student-faculty internships and engaging in other synergistic activities.

    The Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (I-CHASS) and the National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville have made available two million additional hours of supercomputing time to projects in the humanities, arts, and social sciences.

    Education and Training Resources

    The National Science Digital Library is the nation's online library for education and research in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. This is a great resource for students and teachers alike. The HPC University (HPCU) is a virtual organization whose primary goal is to provide an on-line environment to share educational and training materials in high performance computing topics. The Computational Science Education Reference Desk (CSERD) is a Pathways portal of the National Science Digital Library, funded by the National Science Foundation. CSERD aims to help students learn about computational science and to help faculty and teachers incorporate computational science into the classroom.