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<p class="MsoNormal">Sending on behalf of the HPC Advisory Council and the Swiss Supercomputing Center<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Date: March 13-15, 2012<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Location: Palazoo dei Congressi, Lugano, Switzerland <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The HPC Advisory Council and the Swiss Supercomputing Centre will host the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference 2012 in the Lugano Convention Centre, Lugano, Switzerland, from March 13-15, 2012. The conference will focus on High-Performance
Computing (HPC) education, hands-on and classroom training and overviews of new important HPC developments and trends.
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<p class="MsoNormal">The conference will include comprehensive education for topics such as high-performance and parallel I/O, communication libraries (such as MPI, SHMEM and PGAS), GPU and accelerations, Big Data, high-performance cloud computing, high-speed
interconnects, and will include advanced topics and development for upcoming HPC technologies. In addition, attendees will receive hands-on training for topics on clustering, network, troubleshooting, tuning, and optimizations.
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<p class="MsoNormal">For the complete agenda and schedule, please refer to the conference website -
<a href="http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/2012/Switzerland-Workshop/index.php">
http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/2012/Switzerland-Workshop/index.php</a>. The 3-day conference is CHF 80.00. Registration is required and can be made at the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference registration page.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Media sponsorship and coverage is being provided by HPC-CH, insideHPC and Scientific Computing World.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Gilad<o:p></o:p></p>
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