An introduction to basic concepts of high-performance computing. It is intended to be a high-level primer for those largely new to HPC, and serve as a foundation upon which to build over the coming weeks. Topics will include motivation for HPC, available HPC resources, essential issues, problem characteristics as they apply to parallelism, and a high level overview of parallel programming models.
Start date: 9 Jun 2020
End date: 12 Jun 2020