HPC Training and Education Courses

The role of the Training and Education Unit is to provide a range of HPC related courses. These are available free of charge to any member of any UK academic institution. The courses are scheduled to run in term on a part-time basis and as full time courses at other times. The PCC is happy make the course materials available for inclusion in other courses. If the topics covered do not include the material you require please contact the PCC.

General Introduction to HPC
- OHP Slides
Utilizing Workstation Clusters
- OHP Slides
- Student Notes (not currently available)
- Internet Exercises
Visualisation
PVM and XPVM
Data Mining
- Data mining OHP Slides
- Data mining student notes
Languages
- Introduction to programming using Fortran 90
  - OHP Slides
  - Student Notes
- Fortran 90 for Fortran 77 programmers
  - OHP Slides
  - Student Notes
- HPF
- C
- C++
Machine Specific Courses
- Cray
- Meiko
- DAP
Networking: A series of lectures on high performance networking technologies (under development).
User Environments
- Cluster Environment

Various parts of these courses have been adopted and given as modules within architecture courses both at Queen's and the University of Ulster, and the MSc course in computational physics at Queen's. The formal lectures and practical materials were developed within the Parallel Computer Centre. The lectures are currently given by staff from the Parallel Computer Centre, however, the practical sessions, using the materials produced, are now under the control of demonstrators for the individual departments.

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Maintained by A Rea, email A.Rea@qub.ac.uk