International Guest Student Programme on Scientific Computing
Location: Research Center Julich, Germany
Organisers
The field of scientific computing is certainly one which becomes more and more important in the educational plan of universities. In practice this involves teaching of numerical methods, the implementation of algorithms and some programming practice. In order to work on nowadays computational challenges and to compete with other groups on an international level, students should also learn about parallel programming in an early stage of their career, i.e. before entering master or PhD level. Learning about the possibilities and capabilities of parallel computing in this stage provides a wide perspective to students and opens interesting paths to choose the way in their scientific career. Therefore it is necessary to teach students not only theoretically on parallel computing but to provide access and give them the possibility to practice. This also leads to young academics who will be well prepared to prepare their thesis in compute intense fields.
Possible directions of work during the programme include:
- Modeling and simulation in physics, chemistry and biophysics
- Techniques of parallel molecular dynamics
- Efficient methods and parallelization of long range interactions
- Parallel simulation of mesoscopic solvent models
- Parallel algorithms and load-balancing
- Parallel quantum chemistry and structural mechanics
- Performance analysis of parallel algorithms
- Mathematical modelling and statistics
- Programming of hierarchical parallel computer systems
References
Johannes Grotendorst (Research Center Jülich) - Organiser
Ivo Kabadshow (Research Centre Jülich) - Organiser
Godehard Sutmann (Forschungszentrum Juelich) - Organiser