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Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering - Summer 2013

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Register now for Virtual School summer courses on data-intensive and many-core computing

Graduate students, post-docs and professionals from academia, government, and industry are invited to sign up now for two summer school courses offered by the Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering.

  • Data Intensive Summer School: July 8 - 10, 2013 at 11am ET
  • CANCELED: Proven Algorithmic Techniques for Many-core Processors: July 29 - August 2, 2013 at 11am ET

These Virtual School courses will be delivered to sites nationwide using high-definition videoconferencing technologies, allowing students to participate at a number of convenient locations where they will be able to work with a cohort of fellow computational scientists, have access to local experts, and interact in real time with course instructors.

The Data Intensive Summer School focuses on the skills needed to manage, process, and gain insight from large amounts of data. It targets researchers from the physical, biological, economic, and social sciences who need to deal with large collections of data. The course will cover the nuts and bolts of data-intensive computing, common tools and software, predictive analytics algorithms, data management, and non-relational database models.

Participating sites are: Louisiana State University; Marshall University; Michigan State University; Northwestern University and the University of Chicago; Princeton University; Purdue University; University of California Los Angeles; University of California San Diego; University of Delaware; the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; University of Oklahoma; University of Tennessee Knoxville; University of Texas at Brownsville; University of Texas at El Paso; and University of Wisconsin Milwaukee.

For more information about the Data-Intensive Summer School, including pre-requisites and course topics, visit http://www.vscse.org/summerschool/2013/bigdata.html.

Due to unforeseen circumstances, Dr. Wen-Mei Hwu and team will be unable to offer the Proven Algorithmic Techniques for Many-Core Processors that was scheduled for July 29 -August 2, 2013. The summer school has been canceled by the VSCSE. Our apologies for the inconvenience.

Registration fees for each course are $100, with some sites waiving the fees. To register, first visit the user portal for the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE): https://portal.xsede.org/. If this is your first use of the XSEDE portal, follow the guidelines to create a free portal account.

For more information about the Virtual School, go to info@vscse.org.

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