2024 ACM Europe Summer School on “HPC Computer Architectures for AI and Dedicated Applications”
The 2024 ACM Europe Summer School on “HPC Computer Architectures for AI and Dedicated Applications” took place in Barcelona from the 2nd to the 6th of September 2024. The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS) organised this 5th edition of the school. Distinguished scientists in the HPC field gave lectures and tutorials addressing architecture, software and applications for HPC and AI. Additionally, there were invited talks and, on the last day, the ACM School had the honour to listen to the A.M. Turing Award laureate Leslie Lamport.
The school was possible thanks to the support from ACM, BSC, the European Processor Initiative project and the industrial sponsors: Huawei, Intel-Lenovo, Fujitsu, and Hewlett-Packard. The national Spanish supercomputing network, RES, also provided financial support.
The school focused on young computer science researchers and engineers and it was open to outstanding MSc students.
In total, 165 applications were received. After a severe selection process, 68 students were chosen. Among them, there were 23 female students (34% of the total). There were 26 nationalities present: Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, United States, and Vietnam, making this school a truly international experience.
Based on the scores achieved by students in the assignments, seven students received a certificate of honour at the end of the school: Matteo Monopoli (University of Pisa, Italy), Lanpei Li (ISTI-CNR, Italy), Tim Kempchen (University of Bonn, Germany), Regina Yasmin (BMKG, Indonesia), Beatriz Cepa (INESCTEC, Portugal), Koen Mesman (TU Delft, Netherlands), and Lina Herliana (BRIN, Indonesia). All attendees received a certificate of attendance, signed by the Chairpersons, for completing the school.
The summer school evaluation was very positive, both from the students’ perspectives and the organisers’ and lecturers’ points of view.
Mateo Valero (BSC) was the general school Chair, Dr Fabrizio Gagliardi (ACM and BSC) was the school's director and co-led the local organising committee with Prof Eduard Ayguadé (BSC and UPC), Prof Maria Ribera Sancho (BSC and UPC), Dr Teresa Cervero (BSC), Dr Amalia Hafner (BSC), and Ms Andrea Sansano (BSC).