Summer Scholarships in Edinburgh

 Edinburgh 01 Dec 99 Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre's Summer Scholarship Programme is an opportunity for undergraduate students of any subject, with programming experience, to spend ten weeks working on high performance parallel computer systems.EPCC will be offering 12 scholarships in 2000. These 10-week scholarships, are open to talented students in any discipline who have completed at least two years of undergraduate study, and who have programming experience in either C and/or Fortran. The Programme will begin in Edinburgh on Monday 3rd July 2000, and will run for 10 weeks.

Since its inception in 1987, the Programme has given experience of parallel computing to well over 150 senior undergraduate and a number of graduate students from around the world.

EPCC houses an exceptional range of high performance computers including:

  • a 344-processor Cray T3E
  • a 10-processor Cray J90
  • an HPC cluster containing a 4-processor Sun Enterprise 3000
  • and an 8-processor E-3500 system

From summer 2000, EPCC will also have a 48-processor system based on Sun's new UltraSPARC-III processor, expected to be the first of its type in Europe.

Applications for scholarships are now being sought. Application to the Summer Scholarship Programme is via a standard application form which is available from the Summer Scholarship Programme Web pages at the URL: www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/ssp

 

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