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Hands-On Introduction to HPC

Dates: 16-17 December 2014

Location: Southampton University

Lecture Slides

Unless otherwise indicated all material is Copyright © EPCC, The University of Edinburgh, and is only made available for private study.

  • Welcome, Overview and Syllabus
  • Why learn about HPC?
  • Image sharpening
  • Parallel Programming
  • Building Blocks (CPU/Memory/Accelerators)
  • Building Blocks (OS/Process/Threads)
  • Fractals
  • HPC Architectures
  • Parallel programming models
  • Batch systems
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Compilers
  • Parallel Libraries and Implementions
  • Future of HPC
  • Summary

Exercise Material

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  • Sharpen exercise sheet
  • Sharpen results sheet
  • Sharpen source code
  • Fractal exercise sheet
  • Fractal results sheet
  • Fractal source code
  • CFD exercise sheet
  • CFD source code

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