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Supercomputing
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English
15 h
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- 5 Sequences
- Introductive Level
- Starts on August 27, 2017
- Ends on October 1, 2017
Course details
Syllabus
What topics will you cover?
- Supercomputers: introducing supercomputing terminology and some of the largest machines in the world
- Parallel computers: how they are built from hundreds of thousands of CPUs, each similar to those in a desktop PC
- Parallel computing: using parallel processing to harness the power of all of those CPUs for a single calculation
- Computer simulation: how we can perform virtual experiments to make real-life predictions
- Case studies: how supercomputing is making scientific breakthroughs that were never possible before
By the end of the course, you'll be able to...
- Describe how the performance of modern supercomputers is measured and achieved
- Explain why they are built from thousands of simple processors
- Compare the architectures of shared-memory and distributed-memory computers
- Describe the shared-variables and message-passing programming models
- Summarise why computer simulation is a fundamental component of modern scientific discovery
- Investigate simple problems and look for opportunities for parallel processing
- Discuss the limitations of parallel computing
- Identify examples of scientific areas where computer simulation is used
Prerequisite
None.
Instructors
David Henty
I have been working with supercomputers for over 25 years, and teaching people how to use them for almost as long. I joined EPCC after doing research in computational theoretical physics.
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