Introduction to HPC

Annotation

The course is designed as an introductory course for High Performance Computing (HPC), reflecting the supercomputing infrastructure at the IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Center (IT4I). Part of the training will be live demonstrations and simple hands-on exercises.

Target Audience and Purpose of the Course

This training is dedicated to persons, who are interested in basics of HPC and are planning to use the IT4Innovations supercomputing infrastructure.The course is primarily tailored for application users with some experience of smaller platforms (desktops) that need to take advantage of HPC to solve their problems, which are on a scale that is beyond the scope of their current resources. Typically, scientists from various fields are not developers of the application employed, but need to better understand what is “behind the scenes”, i.e. how parallelization works.

The course will provide them with the introduction to most important aspects of HPC, especially as practiced at IT4I, and help answer related questions.