HPC SUMMER SCHOOL SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT: Three weeks remain before the deadline to apply to the third international Summer School on High Performance Computing (HPC) Challenges in Computational Sciences. The deadline is March 18, 2012, and details and the application are at: https://www.xsede.org/web/summerschool12 Selected applicants will spend June 24-28, 2012, in the Royal Marine Hotel, Dublin, Ireland, learning issues related to HPC challenges and networking with experts in the field, as leading American and European computational scientists and HPC technologists present a variety of topics. The program will benefit graduate and postdoctoral students from European and U.S. institutions who currently use HPC to conduct research. Participation is free of charge to students who are selected and includes accommodations and full board in Dublin. Support for travel costs is also available to students selected to participate and who are from U.S. institutions. Participants will stay and attend the summer school in the Royal Marine Hotel in Dun Laoghaire in south Co. Dublin. It is easily accessible to/ from Dublin Airport via 24-hr coach service and 20 minutes from Dublin city center by the DART train. The summer school is cosponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation s Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) project and the European Union Seventh Framework Program s Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE). Contacts: XSEDE Scott Lathrop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, NCSA, United States, lathrop_at_illinois.edu PRACE Hermann Lederer, RZG, Max Planck Society, Germany, lederer_at_rzg.mpg.de Simon Wong, ICHEC, Ireland, simon.wong_at_ichec.ie See also the first announcement: http://www.lrz.de/services/compute/ aktuell/ali4228/ This information is also available on our web server http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/services/compute/aktuell/ali4253/ Alexander Block