The Centre for High Performance Computing, Cape Town, is pleased to announce the ninth High Performance Computing School for graduate students. The CHPC Winter School is aimed at recent B.Sc. (Hons) or B.Eng. graduates, and new M.Sc. or Ph.D. students in the fields of computational chemistry, applied mathematics, physics, computational biology, bioinformatics, computer science, engineering or related subjects with a strong computing content.

The course will cover the concepts and theory of parallel computers, and programming for parallel systems with MPI and OpenMP, using the C, Fortran or python programming languages. Students need to have second year mathematics or applied mathematics (or equivalent) and programming experience in a high level language: C, Fortran or python.

Students who have a strong background in numerical methods and GNU Octave, Scilab, Julia or Matlab (or other programming languages, e.g., Java) may also qualify. The HPC School will run from Monday 3 July to Saturday 8 July 2017 at Stellenbosch University (SU).

There are no fees for successful applicants.

The CHPC will cover the costs of accommodation and meals during the HPC School, and local return air travel for students from outside the Western Cape province, where needed. Eligible applicants should be registered for a graduate degree at a South African University in 2017 or be accepted for graduate study at a South African university in 2018 proof of registration or acceptance must be provided. Should you wish to attend the High Performance Computing School kindly complete the online registration form available on the CHPC events website: https://events.chpc.ac.za/event/3/ by 5 June 2017.

Successful candidates will be contacted from 6 June 2017.

Unless already resident in Stellenbosch, all successful student applicants are expected to stay in the selected accommodation on the SU campus for the duration of the school. The CHPC will cover all costs for accommodation and meals provided. Should you have any queries, please contact workshop@chpc.ac.za or see: http://www.chpc.ac.za/index.php/training-workshops/hpc-school

Postgraduate students from SADC and the SKA partner countries are also eligible to apply.  Unfortunately, we are not able to cover the costs of travel from outside South Africa, but accommodation and meals will be
provided.

The Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) is part of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and funded by the Department of Science and Technology (DST).

Deadline for applications is extended to 5 June 2017.