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Available Courses

• Summer School on Atomistic Simulation Techniques

  • Director: Alessandro Laio
  • Director: Stefano de Gironcoli

    

  The School is hosted by SISSA and DEMOCRITOS. These institutions are major players in the field of numerical simulations of material properties with a 25-year tradition of methodological innovation and high-quality software development.

  The School is mainly directed to undergraduate students, with little or no experience in computer simulations (see Application for more details). The aims of the schools are:

  • providing students with a basic but detailed overview of the theoretical basis of computer simulations of molecular systems, with a focus on molecular dynamics and electronic structure methods
  • giving an overview of the domains of interesting applications
  • providing the basis for running in practice a simple molecular dynamics simulation and a simple electronic structure calculation.

  At the end of the school the students should have a clear idea of the importance of computer simulations; should be aware of the problems that are still open and are at the center of current research effort; should have the capability of writing a code for performing a simple simulation or an analysis.

• Advanced School in High Performance and GRID Computing - Concepts and Applications

  • Director: Stefano Cozzini

    

  Advanced School in High Performance and GRID Computing - Concepts and Applications

  
  
• introduction to parallel programming with MPI

    

  As the demand to computational resources increase in various application areas, cluster computing becomes the most appropriate solution that provides the expected performance with reasonably cheap price per computational operation. This course will try to cover one of the promising architecture for cluster computing infrastructure called Message Passing Interface focusing on the MPI-2 implementation standard. The issues that will be covered in this course are listed in the course delivery structure.
• Hands on training school on porting chemistry and material science applications on GRID infrastructures

  This hands-on school aims at presenting the Grid activities, tools and applications developed and implemented in Chemistry and Material Sciences within the COST D37 Action and EUINDIAGRID project. The school is the follow-up of the 2008 successful edition and will be organized as the previous edition at ICTP, with the collaboration of Democritos/eLab and EGEE/COMPCHEM Virtual organization.
  Target audience are young scientists active in computational molecular and materials science interested in carrying out their activities on grid infrastructures.
  For this purpose, during the school, basic software tools, computer programs and some successful case studies will be illustrated and discussed. Participants are encouraged to take along their own applications in order to enable them on the Grid infrastructures during the hands on sessions.