Overview
School Mission
SC-Camp is a summer school and non-profit event about Super Computing and Distributed Systems. It proposes a series of courses around the thematic of High Performance Computing with an important focus on practical sessions (more than half of the time). It targets Master and PhD students in the field of Computer Sciences, Engineering and any other fields that could benefit from HPC (Physics & Material Sciences, Biology/Bioinformatics, Finance, etc.).
Taking advantage of the Internet and high speed networks available today, one can exploit high performance computing infrastructures from anywhere, even located in the middle of the nature. SC-Camp is an initiative of researchers inspired by this idea that offers undergraduate and master students state-of-the-art lectures and programming practical sessions upon High Performance and Distributed Computing topics. It is an itinerant school, bringing the HPC knowledge to a different place every year.
SC-Camp is a non-profit event, addressed to all students including those that lack of financial backup, so we try to keep the cost for the students as low as possible.
SC-Camp 2025 features scientific sessions, including lectures, practical sessions and keynotes. This year, SC-Camp will be take place in person in Kingston, Jamaica.
Content
The SC-Camp school will focus on the following topics:
- Distributed Systems: Grid/Cluster/Cloud/Volunteer Computing
- Distributed parallel programming with MPI
- Shared Memory parallel programming with OpenMP
- Accelerators: GPUs with CUDA
- Resource/Job Management & Scheduling
- Advanced Computing
Please check the detailed program here.
Organization
SC-Camp 2025 will be integrated with the CARLA 2025 conference. This year, there will be three days of SCCAMP activities, including several hands-on programming sessions. These activities will continue with a collaborative project and participation in at least one of the regular CARLA 2025 Conference mini-courses, one workshop, as well as in the lectures and presentations included in the CARLA 2025 academic program.
We invite applications from any undergraduate (preferably in their senior year) or master’s students across all fields of science, engineering, and computational sciences, especially those with a strong interest in High Performance and Distributed Computing. Because of the advanced nature of the lectures, some basic knowledge of Parallel and Distributed Computing, along with programming skills, is preferred. The scientific and steering committee will review applications based on the applicant’s academic background and motivation letter. This year, we will accept a maximum of 40 students.
Participants
Undergraduate, Master and PhD students in the field of Computer Science, or any other domain working with HPC (Physics, Material Science, Biology/Bioinformatics, Finance, etc.), who are already familiar with programming. SC-Camp is the perfect event to learn all about Distributed and Parallel programming, from basics to the most advanced level, offering a thoughtful practical experience in High Performance Systems to assimilate the concepts.
Registration
Please check the registration procedure on the registration page.
Location
The school will take in the Faculty Cluster Lab in the Department of Computing of the University of the West Indies.
Department of Computing
The University of the West Indies
Mona, Kingston 7
Jamaica, West Indies
All details on the information page.
Contact
- Homepage: http://www.sc-camp.org/2025
- Email: contact@sc-camp.org
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