MSc in High Performance Computing

在过去的二十年中，在科学中使用强大的计算机和网络变得非常重要。许多新的和令人兴奋的研究领域已经开辟，例如在物理，化学，工程和生物学。综合起来，利用超级计算机、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利用HEC。为了创建培训中心，我们在达斯伯里实验室的同事的帮助下，加强和扩展了我们已建立的硕士课程。EPCC高端计算机培训中心旨在提供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高等商学院学生项目，最终获得博士学位；在此期间，他们将在培训中心学习一系列课程，然后参加HEC的研究项目。这一切都导致额外的资格，硕士在高性能计算。整个培训计划是由英国工程和物理科学研究委员会（EPSRC）资助的。为了成功地将博士和硕士课程结合起来，HEC的学生正式注册为爱丁堡大学的兼职学生。他们通常会来我们这里学习七到八周的课程教学部分，在他们的前三年学习中进行。这将使他们能够与其他硕士研究生见面并分享经验，而不必离开他们进行博士研究的机构太长时间。我们提供的培训涵盖了HEC中广泛的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，科学结果的可视化以及支撑计算科学和工程的数学工具和技术。HPC硕士毕业生将获得的技能使他们能够在未来的职业生涯中广泛就业，从博士后学术研究到商业信息技术工作。

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.