Further to the announcement of May 18, 2023, it is still possible to join the school organized by the NOMAD Center of Excellence, entitled "Towards exascale solutions in Green function methods and advanced DFT" - Paphos (Cyprus), Avanti Hotel, October 3-8, 2023. However, note that a cap will be placed at about 60 participants.

All details and the registration form can be found on the School Web site, https://www.nomad-coe.eu/paphos-home .

Upcoming exascale high-performance computing and extreme-scale data hardware pave the way towards accurate predictive models of real-world, industrially relevant complex materials. New computational resources will offer unprecedented opportunities in terms of large-scale simulations, high-throughput workflows and high-accuracy electronic-structure methods. These opportunities come, however, with challenges. Existing scientific software is to be made fit for the efficient exploitation of exascale hardware. Furthermore, quite a few European countries do not have tier 0 high-performance computing facilities, leaving many European researchers are at a disadvantage in terms of supercomputing experience and training.

This summer school targets an audience consisting of PhD students and young postdocs, industry-based researchers - as well as researchers from countries without tier 0 supercomputing facilities. The school will cover a wide range of topics to show the challenges and opportunities of exascale computing in ab initio materials science. Lectures will provide in-depth information on the fundamentals of advanced exchange-correlation functionals, many-body perturbation theory based on Green functions, and coupled-cluster method applied to solids, as well as introduction to high-performance computing on exascale machines (e.g. GPU, hardware architecture, performance limitations...). Special focus will be on libraries and software applications developed in the NOMAD Center of Excellence, for which training will be provided, including on LUMI, a powerful pre-exascale European Union system. Fundamentals and recent developments in the field will be presented by recognized experts, and there will be plenty of room for open exchange between the young scientists and established international experts (L. Reining, M. Marques, K. Thygesen, G.-M. Rignanese, C. Friedrich, D. Golze, J. Wilhelm ...).

X. Gonze, M. Zacharias, A. Gulans and C. Draxl