A Beginner's Guide to High-Performance Computing
| Url | http://www.shodor.org/petascale/materials/UPModules/beginnersGuideHPC/ |
| Creator | Rubin Landau |
| Contributor | None listed |
| Publisher | Shodor Education Foundation |
| Description | This module presents some of the general ideas behind and basics principles of high-performance computing (HPC) as performed on a supercomputer. These concepts should remain valid even as the technical specification of the latest machines continually change. Although this material is aimed at HPC supercomputers, if history be a guide, present HPC hardware and software become desktop machines in less than a decade. |
| Format | C, PDF |
| Subject | Education, Computational Science, Computer Science |
| Keyword | None listed |
| Audience | Educator, Learner/Student, Student |