D3.3.3 PRACE Winter School

The PRACE Winter School was hosted by GRNET with the cooperation of AUTH in Athens from February 10th to 13th 2009. There were 79 registrations for the event and 48 students were selected from 18 different countries. The participants received advanced training on current and future parallel programming models and optimization techniques. The latest PRACE developments were integrated into the program and two PRACE prototypes were used (POWER6 at SARA and CELL at BSC) for the hands-on sessions. In the anonymous feedback returned by 38 students, the School organization and training content received excellent grades