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PRACE on the Road
PRACE on the Road
PRACE presented lively, entertaining and informative booths at the Sofia Science Festival in Bulgaria from 14 to 17 May and at the Project Information and Dissemination Event (PRIDE) in Croatia from 25 to 29 May 2015. These events reached out to young people and the general public informing them of the benefits of High Performance Computing and the activities of PRACE.
Sofia Science Festival, 14 – 17 May 2015
The Sofia Science Festival was held from 14 to 17 of May 2015 in Sofia, Bulgaria. The festival is an annual event, created by the British Council and Forum Democrit under patronage of the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science. This year, PRACE, represented by the Bulgarian National Centre for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA-BG), presented supercomputing and supercomputers to an audience of over 1000, including 250 attendees to a prime-time lecture entitled “Supercomputers – from Nobel Prizes to High-Speed Trains”.
The PRACE booth proved one of the most popular of the 30 booths spread among 13 pavilions in Zaimov Park. Guests at the PRACE booth played the PRACE “Shooting Stars” and “ParallelRace” games, which illustrate some of the benefits and applications of Supercomputers through engaging gameplay. In addition to the games, PRACE videos, posters and printed material were displayed and guests had the opportunity to discuss science, computing and supercomputing with PRACE staff.
The event was a great success, reaching over one thousand young people, informing them of the benefits of HPC and encouraging them on the path to becoming the next generation of HPC users.
Project Information and Dissemination Event, 25 – 29 May 2015
PRIDE 2015 (Project Information and Dissemination Event 2015) was held in Croatia as a part of the 38th International Convention MIPRO 2015 during the week of 25 to 29 May 2015. MIPRO is a big international convention (more than 1000 participants from 30 – 40 countries) dedicated to information and communication technology, electronics and microelectronics. More than 370 papers from 38 countries were presented at 10 conferences. At PRIDE2015 PRACE presented its activities within a booth. PRACE videos, posters and printed material were available and many engaging discussions took place at the booth.
Future Events
Join PRACE at booth #1201 at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) in Frankfurt Germany from 13-15 July.
This article was first published on www.prace-ri.eu on Tuesday 30 June 2015.
