University of Crete, Heraklion. Date: Monday 4th February (10:00 to 14:00). The meeting will take place at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Crete
University of Tel-Aviv, Israel. Date: Tuesday 19th February (9:00 to 13:00). The meeting will take place at Tel Aviv University, Gilman Building, room 277. (Building #39 on the detailed map you can find here).
University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan. Date: Tuesday 28th February (9:00 to 13:00). The meeting will take place at Ahmad Alauzi Hall, King Abdullah II School for Information Technology, University of Jordan
Ain-Shams University, Cairo Egypt. Date: Monday 4th March (11:00 to 15:00) The meeting will take place at the Seminar Hall in the ground floor of the main building of Faculty of Science, Ain-Shams University, Cairo
Assuit University, Egypt. Date: Monday 19th March (11:00 to 15:00). The meeting will take place at the Lecture room of the supercomputer lab, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Assiut University.

User Meeting Details

The user meeting will:

Provide a general introduction to LinkSCEEM and its resources.
Give an overview of available HPC systems and software available within LinkSCEEM.
Describe the training program of LinkSCEEM and the various LinkSCEEM training events. Attendees will also be informed on upcoming events and available fellowships (funded by LinkSCEEM).
Explain how people can access the HPC resources available through LinkSCEEM for the purpose of their scientific research projects.

The user meeting will also include a hands-on session where participants of the user meeting will be guided through the various steps which are required to access and submit jobs to a LinkSCEEM HPC resource. This will include the generation of ssh keys, compilation and submission of jobs – all of which will be accompanied with relevant hands-on practical examples.

Registration

People wishing to attend any one of the user meetings should express their interest to Eleftherios Eleftheriou - clearly indicating the location they wish to attend the user meeting. Attendance to the workshops is given on a first come first serve basis.

Registration Deadline:

- Crete: 28 of January 2013

- Israel: 11 of February 2013

- Jordan: 20 of February 2013

- Egypt, Cairo: 28 of February 2013

- Egypt, Assuit: 11 of March 2013

Equipment

Participants are expected to bring their own laptops - so they will be able to participate on the hands on exercises during the user meeting, and any other things (such as stationery) they themselves may need during the user meeting.

Program

The detailed program of the user meetings can be found below or can be downloaded here:

Program

LinkSCEEM-2: A computational resource for the Eastern Mediterranean

Introduction to LinkSCEEM-2 project

Overview of LinkSCEEM resources

Available resources in LinkSCEEM-2

HPC training opportunities

LinkSCEEM training program and online training resources

LinkSCEEM resource allocation

Call for Proposal procedures, resource allocation process

Coffee break/ discussion

Hands on training session - Core skills

Creation of user accounts, job submission, simple HPC examples