Supercomputing – Online Computing Course

Who is the course for?

This course is designed for anyone interested in leading-edge computing technology, supercomputers or the role that computer simulation takes in modern science and engineering.

All of the technical aspects will be covered at a conceptual level and there is no requirement to be able to write computer programs. However, anyone with existing programming experience will learn how programming modern supercomputers differs from programming a home PC.

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