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K-B HPC Knowledge
Background
The theoretical knowledge of HPC provides the background to understand how supercomputers and HPC environments operate. This enables practitioners to effectively use such environments.
Aim
- 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.
Outcomes
- 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
Subskills
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