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    General information

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    The NHR Summer School provides further education and training in the field of HPC for NHR Graduate School fellows exclusively. In addition, special attention is given to fostering networking and exchange among the members of the NHR Graduate School. 

    The NHR Summer School 2025 is scheduled to take place from May 19-23, 2025, at the Erlangen Regional Computing Center, seminar room 2.049, Martensstr. 1, 91058 Erlangen, (view on map). 

    The event is being organized by the NHR centers in Erlangen (NHR@FAU), Berlin (NHR@ZIB), and Darmstadt (NHR@TUDa), in collaboration with the NHR Office. 

    This Moodle page provides all necessary information for participation, including lecture slides, example code, and miscellaneous material.

    • Accomodation

      Hotel NH Erlangen
       
      Address:
      Beethovenstreet 3
      91052 Erlangen, Germany.
       
      Important information: if you are unable to attend, the NHR Office must be informed immediately or by April 20, 2025 at the latest via email. The hotel will charge the full room rate after this date. 
       

      Bus to the NHR@FAU:

       

      Bus stop: “Erlangen, Werner von Siemens Straße”

      Route 30, direction: “Nürnberg Nordost über Flughafen”, or

      Route 295, direction: “Tennenlohe” (→ get off at the stop "Erlangen Süd")

    • Program NHR Summer School 2025

      For a detailed overview of the program of the NHR Summer School 2025, please click here.

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    Poster Exhibition

    All fellows are strongly encouraged to prepare a poster that presents their PhD research topic for participation in the Poster Exhibition of the NHR Summer School 2025. In addition, all fellows are requested to submit an abstract of their poster (max. 300 words). The poster can be utilized at the ISC'25 Conference and the NHR Conference 2025.

    The poster exhibition is scheduled to commence on May 19, 2025, at 2 p.m. and will conclude on May 23, 2025, at 1 p.m.

    Posters printing and (poster) abstracts submission

    All fellows are requested to upload their posters and poster abstracts to the following folder if it should be printed at the Erlangen Computer Center. The deadline is May 13, 2025.

    As an alternative option, the poster can be brought to the NHR Summer School Poster Exhibition already printed. The poster abstract must still be submitted by May 13, 2025.

    >>> Submission - Posters and poster abstracts - NHR Summer School 2025 Poster Exhibition <<<

    Please note that the poster must be hung up by each fellow independently. 

    Posters contents

    The posters should showcase the following information about the fellow's research work:

    • research subject
    • present state of research
    • methodology used.

    Information for fellows of the 4th cohort: please prepare a poster on your planned research topic and methodology or, if this is not yet possible, on your previous scientific research, e.g., master's thesis, publications, conference participation, etc..

    Posters format 

    • Format: DIN A0 portrait orientation.
    • Size: 841 mm × 1189 mm, with a high resolution to ensure readability, e.g., 2384 px × 3370 px at 72 dpi.
    • File Size: max. 10 MB.

    Uploaded Posters

    If you uploaded it on time, your poster should already be put up in our exhibition space. If you bring your poster with you, we can supply the sticky stuff (power strips, etc.).

    You can read all pre-uploaded >>> abstracts here <<<

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    Program on Monday, May 19, 2025 : Welcome day

    14:00-18:30 Welcome + Self-Presentations by the Fellows + Poster Session

    Location: RRZE, Martensstr. 1, Seminar room 2.049

    • Welcome speech by Prof. Gerhard Wellein, member of the NHR Aliance Board of Directors and head of NHR@FAU and Prof. Kai Willner, Dean of Technical Faculty, FAU  (20 min.)
    • Short Welcome and Introduction to the science system in Germany from the NHR-Office (45 min.)
    • The fellows introduce themselves and their research plans with posters (1.5 h)
    • Networking w.r.t. cooperations and secondment (45 min.)


    18:30-21:00 Get-together

    • Welcome dinner with pizza

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    Program on Tuesday, May 20, 2025

    Morning, 09:00 - 12:30 h

    Parallel course offers:

    NHR4CES@TUDa: CI/CD for Research Software (beginner) (room 2.049) 

    NHR4CES@TUDa: CI/CD for Research Software (advanced) (room eStudio)

    Lunch break, 12:30 - 13:30 h

    Afternoon,13:30 - 16:30 h

    Parallel course offers:

    NHR4CES@TUDa: CI/CD for Research Software (beginner) (room 2.049)

    NHR4CES@TUDa: CI/CD for Research Software (advanced) (room eStudio)

    Evening, Tour through the old town of Nürnberg, 17:00 - 21:00 h

    Dinner after the course program:

     

    Bus route 30 at 5:14 PM, at the bus stop “Erlangen Süd” direction:

    “Nürnberg Nordostbahnhof” (get off at the stop “Nürnberg, Am

    Wegfeld”)

    Google Maps link  to bus stop "Erlangen Süd"

     

    → Take the tram route 4, (direction: “Dutzendteich”), or 10, (direction:

    "Gibitzenhof"), at the stop “Am Wegfeld” (Get off at the stop “Friedrich

    Ebert-Platz”)

     

    → Take the subway U3, direction: “Nürnberg. Großreuth” (get off at the stop

    “Wöhrder Wiese)
    Google Maps link to subway station "Wöhrder Wiese"

     

    → 4 Minutes walk to the beer garden Kopernikus 6:15 PM
    Google Maps link to "Kopernikus"

     

    Guided tour of the old town in Nürnberg:

     

    → Starting: 8:30 PM, meeting point: tourist information at Hauptmarkt (i-Säule,Hauptmarkt 18, 90403 Nürnberg)

    Google Maps link to "Tourist Info Hauptmarkt"

    Duration: app. 90 minutes

    Gästeführer: Sergey Povolotskiy / Walter Zangl

     

    → Walk from "Kopernikus" to Hauptmarkt:  12 minutes 

     

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    Program on Wednesday, May 21, 2025

    Morning, 09:00 - 12:30 h

    Parallel course offers:

    NHR@FAU: Introduction to GPU Programming I: Models, Techniques, and Hands-On Exploration (beginner) (room 2.049)
    NHR@FAU: Code generation for HPC (advanced), part 1 (room eStudio)

    Lunch break: 12:30 - 13:30 h

    Afternoon: 13:30 - 18:00 h

    Parallel course offers:

    NHR@ZIB: Introduction to GPU programming II: SYCL and OpenMP (beginner), part 1 (room 2.049)
    NHR@FAU: Code generation for HPC (advanced), part 2 (room eStudio)

     

    Evening, 18:00 - 21:00 h

    free evening, suggestions for self-organized activities:

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    Program on Thursday, May 22, 2025

    Note: If you want to take your printed posters home with you, you should take them down today. All posters that are still hanging tonight will be removed and disposed of.

    Morning, 09:00 - 12:30 h

    Parallel course offers:

    NHR@ZIB: Getting Started with Modern AI Frameworks and Scaling them on Supercomputing Clusters (beginner), part 1 (room 2.049)
    NHR@ZIB: Introduction to GPU programming II: SYCL and OpenMP (beginner), part 2 (room eStudio)

    Lunch break: 12:30 - 13:30 h

    Afternoon: 13:30 - 15:45 h

    Parallel course offers:

    NHR@FAU: Introduction to GPU Programming -- Programming Challenge (room 2.049)
    NHR@ZIB: Getting Started with Modern AI Frameworks and Scaling them on Supercomputing Clusters (beginner), part 2 (room eStudio)

    Side events, 15:45- 21:00 h

    Guided tour of the Erlangen Computer Science Collection (ISER) at NHR@FAU

    Tour of the old cellars at Entlas Keller in Erlangen:

    After the ISER tour:

    Bus route 293 at 5:20 PM at the bus stop: “Erlangen, Technische Fakultät

    / Wohnheim (south side)“, direction: “Büchenbach, Lindnerstraße“ (get off at the stop

    “Erlangen, Martin-Luther-Platz”)

    Link to Google Maps route

    → about 10 Minute walk to Entlas Keller Erlangen

    Link to Google Maps route

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    Program on Friday, May 23, 2025

    Morning: 09:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

    09:00 - 10:00 a.m. Introduction to the Scientific System in Germany by Dr. Franka Derwisch, Managing Director, NHR Office

    10:00 - 10:30 a.m. Coffee break

    10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon, group work on current topics

    10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon 1st speaker meeting

    12:00 - 13:00 p.m. lunch break

    Departure from 1 p.m. onwards