MSc in High Performance Computing

高性能计算理学硕士

• 批准号: EP/C530942/1
• 负责人: Paul Sherwood
• 金额: $ 4.47万
• 依托单位: Science and Technology Facilities Council
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Training Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2006 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FC530942%2F1
• 关键词: MSc; Performance; Computing

Over the last two decades the use of powerful computers and networks in science has become very important. Many new and exciting research areas have opened up, for example in physics, chemistry, engineering and biology. Taken together, the use of supercomputers, networking and large databases to solve scientific problems is known as High End Computing (HEC).EPCC is an institute within the School of Physics at the University of Edinburgh. We have around 60 full-time staff, and our aim is to help academic researchers and commercial companies to exploit HEC. To create the Training Centre we have enhanced and extended our established MSc programme with some help from our colleagues at Daresbury Laboratory.The EPCC High End Computing Training Centre is designed to provide one year of postgraduate training at masters level. The students who come to the Centre will actually be on a longer, four-year HEC Studentship programme leading eventually to a PhD; during this, they take a number of courses at the Training Centre followed by an HEC research project. This all leads to an additional qualification, the MSc in High Performance Computing. The entire training programme is funded by the UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).To combine the PhD and MSc programmes successfully, HEC students are formally enrolled as part-time students at the University of Edinburgh. The will usually visit us for two blocks of seven or eight weeks for the taught part of the course, spread out over their first three years of study. This will alloy them to meet and share experiences with their fellow MSc students without having to spend too long away from the institution where they are doing the PhD research.The training that we provide covers a wide range of useful and exciting areas in HEC. This includes how to write high-quality computer programs, how to make programs go fast on the world's largest supercomputers, how to use Grid technologies to harness the intemet effectively, visualisation of scientific results and the mathematical tools and techniques that underpin computational science and engineering.Graduates of the MSc in HPC will have acquired skills that make them employable in a wide range of future careers ranging from postdoctoral academic research beyond their PhD, to jobs in commercial Information Technology.

在过去的二十年里，在科学领域使用强大的计算机和网络已经变得非常重要。许多新的和令人兴奋的研究领域已经开放，例如在物理，化学，工程和生物学。总之，使用超级计算机，网络和大型数据库来解决科学问题被称为高端计算（HEC）。EPCC是爱丁堡大学物理学院的一个研究所。我们有大约60名全职员工，我们的目标是帮助学术研究人员和商业公司开发HEC。为了创建培训中心，我们在达雷斯伯里实验室的同事的帮助下，加强和扩展了我们既定的硕士课程。EPCC高端计算培训中心旨在提供为期一年的硕士水平的研究生培训。来到该中心的学生实际上将参加为期四年的HEC学生计划，最终获得博士学位;在此期间，他们在培训中心学习一些课程，然后参加HEC研究项目。这一切都导致了一个额外的资格，在高性能计算硕士。整个培训课程由英国工程及物理科学研究理事会（EPSRC）资助。为将博士及硕士课程成功联合收割机结合，港灯学生正式入读爱丁堡大学兼读课程。他们通常会在课程的教学部分访问我们两个街区，每七或八周，分布在他们学习的前三年。这将使他们能够与其他硕士生会面并分享经验，而不必离开他们正在进行博士研究的机构太长时间。我们提供的培训涵盖了HEC的各种有用和令人兴奋的领域。这包括如何编写高质量的计算机程序，如何使程序在世界上最大的超级计算机上运行得更快，如何使用网格技术有效地利用互联网，可视化的科学成果和数学工具和技术，支撑计算科学和工程。硕士在HPC的毕业生将获得技能，使他们在广泛的未来职业生涯，从就业博士后学术研究超越他们的博士学位，在商业信息技术的工作。