VSCSE workshops to be offered for UD researchers again this summer

12:30 p.m., April 30, 2014--This summer, the University of Delaware again joins a national group of geographically dispersed, prominent universities as host sites for workshops organized by the Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering (VSCSE). 

The workshops will be especially beneficial for those who are investing in the new community HPC cluster as well as for those currently involved in high performance computing.

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To encourage participation, UD Information Technologies will pay the fees for participants in the VSCSE workshops. 

The workshops are open to graduate students, post-docs, faculty and professionals from academia, government, and industry. This summer, the sessions are:

• Harness the Power of GPU’s: Introduction to GPGPU Programming (June 16-20, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.) 
• Data Intensive Summer School (June 30-July 2, 11 a.m.–5 p.m.) 

Both multi-day virtual workshops will be held in 304 Pearson Hall (Studio C) and are led by faculty and researchers from the University of California San Diego's Supercomputer Center and the Indiana University Pervasive Technology Institute, UITS Research Technologies Division, with on-site UD teaching assistants. 

The workshops are limited to 20 participants each. Register early to assure yourself of a seat.

For more information, see UD's VSCSE workshop web page or contact Anita Schwartz.