[Academic] HPC Summer studentships, Juelich Supercomputing Centre

[Richard Martin]

2012 Guest Student Programme on Scientific Computing

Where:  Juelich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Juelich
When:   6 August to 12 October 2012


In order to give students the opportunity to familiarize themselves with 
various aspects of scientific computing as early as possible, the Jülich 
Supercomputing Centre (JSC) is once again organizing a programme for 
guest students in the 2012 summer vacation. The programme is supported 
by CECAM - Centre Europeen de Calcul Atomique and the German Research 
School for Simulation Sciences.

It targets students of science and engineering, informatics and 
mathematics who have already completed their first degree but have not 
yet finished their master's course.

The students will work together with local scientists on topics of
current interest in research and development. Depending on their
previous experience and interests, they will be involved in various
fields of work, for example:

Computational Science, Applied Mathematics
          Modelling and simulation in physics, chemistry and biophysics
          Techniques of parallel molecular dynamics simulation
          Efficient methods for long-range interactions
          Parallel computational procedures in quantum chemistry and
          structural mechanics
          Performance evaluation of parallel algorithms in linear algebra
          Mathematical modelling and statistics, data mining

High-Performance Computing, Visualisation
          Performance analysis and optimization of parallel programs
          Programming of hierarchical parallel computer systems
          Distributed applications, interactive control and visualisation
          Virtual reality techniques for visualising scientific data

Computer Architectures, Distributed Computing
          Distributed computing, uniform and secure access to IT resources
          Cluster operating systems
          Interconnection networks in clusters
          Data management
          High-speed data networks
          Network management

The programme will run for ten weeks from 6 August to 12 October 2012.
The students will be able to use the supercomputers at JSC, including
the new Blue Gene/Q installation which will be the successor of JSC's
workhorse JUGENE. They should naturally be familiar with 
computer-oriented areas of their subjects. In addition, they should also 
have practical computer experience including at least a good knowledge 
of programming with C, C++ or Fortran on Unix systems.

More information: http://www.fz-juelich.de/ias/jsc/gsp
Application deadline: 09 May 2012

Contact:  Mathias Winkel
           Juelich Supercomputing Centre
           Forschungszentrum Juelich
           52425 Juelich (Germany)
           Tel.:   +49-2461-61-2509
           Fax:    +49-2461-61-6656
           E-Mail:  jsc-gsp at fz-juelich.de