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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Dear users of LRZ,
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Also this year LRZ will offer a basic and an advanced Parallel Programming HPC course, organised in collaboration with the Erlangen Regional Computing Centre (RRZE).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">The
<b>basic course “Parallel Programming of High Performance Systems”</b> will take place at RRZE in Erlangen, Monday, March 07 - Friday, March 11, 2016, 9:00-16:00<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Topics: HPC, parallel programming models (MPI, OpenMP), software engineering, processor architectures, principles of code optimisation, parallel architectures and
 algorithms, HPC tools, …<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">See
<a href="https://www.lrz.de/services/compute/courses/2016-03-07_hppb1w15/">https://www.lrz.de/services/compute/courses/2016-03-07_hppb1w15/</a>  for details. Registration deadline: 22.2.2016 !<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">The
<b>advanced course “PRACE PATC Course: Advanced Topics in High Performance Computing”</b> will take place at LRZ, Monday, April 4 - Thursday, April 7, 2016, 9:00-18:00<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Topics: Processor-specific optimisation, parallel I/O with MPI I/O, tuning of I/O on LRZ's HPC systems, Intel Xeon Phi programming, PGAS programming, …<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">See
<a href="https://www.lrz.de/services/compute/courses/2016-04-04_hppa1s16/">https://www.lrz.de/services/compute/courses/2016-04-04_hppa1s16/</a>  for details. Registration deadline: 21.3.2016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">We would like to invite
<span style="color:black">you</span> to participate in this series of parallel programming courses. Please also pass this course announcement to other interested colleagues.<span style="color:black"> Especially new users are highly encouraged to participate
 in our parallel programming courses.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">LRZ is part of the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS), which is one of the six PRACE Advanced Training Centres (PATCs) that started in 2012.
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Information on further HPC courses:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">  - by LRZ:  <a href="http://www.lrz.de/services/compute/courses/">http://www.lrz.de/services/compute/courses/</a><span style="color:black">
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">  - by the Gauss Centre of Supercomputing (GCS):   <a href="http://www.gauss-centre.eu/training">http://www.gauss-centre.eu/training</a><span style="color:black">
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">  - by the PRACE Advanced Training Centres (PATCs):
<a href="http://www.training.prace-ri.eu/">http://www.training.prace-ri.eu/</a><span style="color:black">
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Volker Weinberg<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">--<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Dr. Volker Weinberg<span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="DE" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">Leibniz-Rechenzentrum der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften<span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">- High Performance Computing Group -<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">email:  
<a href="mailto:weinberg@lrz.de"><span style="color:windowtext">weinberg@lrz.de</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">address: Boltzmannstr. 1 - D-85748 Garching bei Muenchen            
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif">phone:   +49 (89) 35831-8863<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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