There is a small number of remaining posts available to attend a 3-day workshop starting on February 6th 2012, at the Cyprus Institute, with hands-on guidance for participants in preparing their project for HPC usage. Beginning in January 2012, the resources of the LinkSCEEM-2 project will be enhanced by the Cy-Tera GPU-accelerated HPC system, capable of ~35 TFlops/s peak performance, making this a golden opportunity to prepare to use this resource.

The Advanced HPC Workshop in Cyprus will focus on areas directly relevant to the applicants interests and address topics such as:

The second meeting of the Steering Committee of the LinkSCEEM-2 Project took place at the Cyprus Institute on October 5th, 2011. The meeting was attended by Steering Committee members and project participants from ten of the eleven LinkSCEEM-2 partner institutions. First year project achievements and the way forward, as well as the upcoming first year EC review of the project were some of the topics discussed. Several Work Packages held face-to-face meetings during the days immediately preceding and following the meeting of the Steering Committee.

The event program and detailed agenda may be found here.

Date: 11th – 13th of October 2011

Sponsors: The European Commission (DG-INFSO) and the Cyprus Institute

Venue: Cyprus Institute (http://www.cyi.ac.cy/), Nicosia, Cyprus.

Program: The objective of the workshop is to provide highly motivated trainees interested in the fields of climate modeling and high performance computing the fundamental skills in climate research and numerical modeling. The program in will cover topics in basic atmospheric physics and dynamics, coupling of complex sea-air regimes, numerical modeling of atmospheric flows and regional climate modeling. The workshop sessions will include: