The variety and depth of topics covered, the fact that all teachers were extremely competent, the great level of the lectures, the optimal accomodation at CeUB.

(ESC participant)

The completeness of the arguments with proper hand-on session, useful to fully understand the theory.

(ESC participant)

High quality materials and proficiency of the lecturers in their field, which resulted in useful hands-on sections because of their insights. Moreover, I liked the interactions opportunities during breaks and meals to speak with the lecturers.

(ESC participant)

The topics were really interesting and most of them were new to me, so this school were a crash-course which gave me a lot of stimulating hints
to deepen further when I get home.

(ESC participant)

“The amount of detail provided on each topic is incredible, and tutors and teachers are always available for questions and curiosities on every aspect. There was plenty of time to have a look at the exercises and the ratio of #students/#tutor was perfect.”
(ESC participant)

“The organization of classes is on very high level, I think it is brushed into near perfection. The topics were presented in very clear way with a lot of consideration for people that were not familiar with some basic concepts.”
(ESC participant) 

“I really enjoyed the possibility to interact directly with the experts, ask questions, get information during a chat in the coffee break, as well as the well organized consolidation sessions. It was great also the panoramic view of the different options about optimization and parallelization, from simple vectorization, to more complex offloading of processes.”
(ESC participant)

“I really enjoyed the variety of the lessons arguments. In my future projects I definitely will employ some of the techniques shown during this school. The hands on lessons were also very useful to fix the notions right away.”
(ESC participant)

“The location of the school was exceptional: Bertinoro is simply incredible!
I think the School contents were really useful. The professors seemed very competent and capable to teach such an amount of notions in few days, which is not always the case.”
(ESC participant)

“Lectures had a didactic approach: they were lessons, not only presentations. Tutors were clear and always available for further explanations.”
(ESC participant) 

“Learning by doing is the only approach that really works and it is the motto of this school.”
(ESC participant)

“The scientific and social environment has been great, large support from both students and teachers. Large variety of topics, satisfying interests and everybody’s curiosity. The school totally matched my expectations of enlarging my knowledge and gain some experience in other computing topics.”
(ESC participant)

“The school introduced the latest C++17 standard. Consolidation time slots were a nice introduction to the school.
Three parallel computing approaches threading, CUDA (GPU) and MPI were introduced at the same time which is a very good approach.
Instructors were friendly and helped as much as they could.”
(ESC participant)

IDC Special Studies for the European Commission #SR03S

 “… sustained performance leadership on real-world high performance computing applications and workloads
will be determined far more by software advances than by hardware progress…”