Supercomputing

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Supercomputing
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Overview

Duration	5 weeks
Total fee	₹2,763
Mode of learning	Online
Official Website	Go to Website
Credential	Certificate

Supercomputing
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Highlights

Duration 5 weeks
Weekly study 3 hours
100% online Learn at your own pace

Supercomputing
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Course details

Skills you will learn

Simulation

More about this course

Today's supercomputers are the most powerful calculating machines ever invented, capable of performing more than a thousand million million calculations every second. This gives scientists and engineers a powerful new tool to study the natural world - computer simulation.
This run of the course will be
, meaning that the educators won't be able to join the discussions themselves or respond to individual
comments. However, the course still encourages a strong learning community focussed around debate and discussion - supporting other learners, sharing your own
experience and knowledge, and listening to new perspectives.
Using supercomputers, we can now conduct virtual experiments that are impossible in the real world from looking deep inside individual atoms, to studying the future climate of the earth and following the evolution of the entire universe from the big bang.
This free online course will introduce you to what supercomputers are, how they are used and how we can exploit their full computational potential to make scientific breakthroughs.
Over five weeks, we'll look at:
This supercomputing course has been developed by the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) and the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC) at The University of Edinburgh in collaboration with SURFsara from The Netherlands.
PRACE coordinates many of the largest supercomputers in Europe, so has world-leading experience of the benefits that supercomputing can bring.
EPCC is a PRACE partner, operates the UK national supercomputer ARCHER and has a long history of developing and delivering training.