The theoretical knowledge of HPC provides the background to understand how supercomputers and HPC environments operate. This enables practitioners to effectively use such environments.

• To provide background knowledge that is relevant for all other branches.
• To provide theoretical background to judge the behavior and efficiency of systems.
• To provide technical understanding of HPC systems

• Explain the hardware, software, and operation of HPC systems
• Construct and judge simple performance models for systems and applications
• Understand that there are performance frontiers
• Explain why it is a special challenge to achieve good speedups and good efficiencies if the number of processing elements is steadily increased
• Compare different paradigms for the parallelization of applications
• Construct and execute an HPC workflow on an HPC system
• Comprehend job scheduling principles
• Apply a cost model to compute the costs for running a workflow on an HPC system

• K1-B Supercomputers
• K2-B Performance Modeling
• K3-B Program Parallelization
• K4-B Job Scheduling
• K5-B Modeling Costs