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The RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) is calling for applications to attend the International HPC Summer School 2026 which R-CCS will be co-hosting with other research institutes in Europe, the US, Canada, Australia, and South Africa. From Japan, we plan to accept approximately 10 young researchers, including graduate students or early-career researchers (such as postdoctoral fellows) affiliated with Japanese universities or research institutions. If you are interested in applying, please read the information and apply through the the International HPC Summer School (IHPCSS) application websiteThe webpage will open in a new tab..

International HPC Summer School 2026 in Perth, Australia

International HPC Summer School 2026 Location: Perth, Australia

Details
Date Sun, July 12- Fri, July 17, 2026
City Perth, Australia
Organizer
  • University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and University of Texas at Austin in the U.S.
  • Euro HPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU)
  • RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS)
  • Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre (Pawsey)
  • Digital Research Alliance (DRAC)
  • NICIS CHPC and NITheCS
Eligibility

Graduate students or early-career researchers (e.g., postdoctoral researchers) affiliated with Japanese universities or research institutions (at the time of the school in July 2026)
Note: Approximately 10 successful applicants will be invited from Japan.
Applicants must belong to universities or institutions whose head or the delegated person can issue a formal letter of request on behalf of applicants in FY2026.
(Travel and accommodation expenses will be covered by R-CCS.)

To Apply

International HPC Summer School 2026The webpage will open in a new tab.

Registration Close Date 23:59 (AoE) January 31, 2026
Notes

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Purpose

The summer school will familiarize the best students in computational sciences with major state-of-the-art aspects of HPC and Big Data Analytics for a variety of scientific disciplines, catalyze the formation of networks, provide advanced mentoring, facilitate international exchange and open up further career options.

Events

Leading computational scientists and HPC technologists from partner regions will offer instruction in parallel sessions on a variety of topics such as:

  • HPC and Big Data Challenges in Major Scientific Disciplines
  • Shared-memory programming
  • Distributed-memory programming
  • GPU programming
  • Performance analysis and optimization on modern CPUs and GPUs
  • Software engineering
  • Numerical libraries
  • Big Data analytics
  • Deep learning
  • Scientific visualization
  • Australian, Canadian, European, Japanese and U.S. HPC infrastructures

Direct inquiries to

Outreach Group,
Computational Science Promotion Division, RIKEN

  • mail addressrenkei_hrd[at]ml.riken.jp
  • (replace [at] with @)

(Dec 22, 2025)