Rosa Badia leads parallel and distributed computing course at ACACES17

10 July 2017

BSC’s Rosa Badia, who leads the Workflows and Distributed Computing Group in the Computer Sciences department, is giving a course at ACACES17, the Summer School on Advanced Computer Architecture and Compilation for High-Performance and Embedded Systems. The summer school, organised by HiPEAC (the European Network on High-Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation), takes place in Fiuggi, Italy this week (9-15 July).

Badia’s course will explore programming models for parallel and distributed computing platforms, with a particular focus on the BSC programming models COMPSs and PyCOMPSs. The latest issue of the HiPEAC magazine, HiPEACinfo 51, also features an article by Badia on PyCOMPSs (‘Parallelizing Python codes using the superscalar model’).

Now in its thirteenth edition, ACACES brings together top professors from around the world to deliver courses on a wide range of advanced computing topics. This year, course topics include quantum, neuromorphic and cloud computing, safe and secure embedded systems, reconfigurable hardware and technology entrepreneurship, among others. A keynote talk on machine learning by Olivier Temam (Google) opened the event on Sunday 9 July, while the invited talk by David Moloney (Intel) on Monday 10 July will discuss getting machine vision products from the lab to the market.

In addition, as with all HiPEAC events, recruitment and communications support is provided by BSC’s Research Support, Transfer and Dissemination Unit. The HiPEAC Jobs careers unit, run by Xavier Salazar, will be at the event, helping to ensure that the best candidates fill computing systems vacancies across Europe, while Anna Molinet will provide communications support onsite.

Further information:

ACACES Summer School 2017

There are currently two open vacancies in Rosa Badia’s group at BSC: