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A Beginner's Guide to High-Performance Computing
Urlhttp://www.shodor.org/petascale/materials/UPModules/beginnersGuideHPC/
CreatorRubin Landau
ContributorNone listed
PublisherShodor Education Foundation
DescriptionThis 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.
FormatC, PDF
SubjectEducation, Computational Science, Computer Science
KeywordNone listed
AudienceEducator, Learner/Student, Student