MSc Scholarship In High Performance Computing University of Edinburgh University of Edinburgh

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MSc in High Performance Computing
University of Edinburgh

Programme description

The MSc in High Performance Computing (HPC) provides an excellent grounding in HPC technologies and their practical application. It will appeal if you have a keen interest in programming and would like to learn about HPC and parallel programming. The MSc provides a doorway to wide range of careers, including computational science research and commercial software development.

This one year MSc programme has a strong practical focus and you will have access to leading-edge HPC platforms and technologies. The core courses will provide you with a broad-based coverage of the fundamentals of HPC and parallel computing, while the optional courses will give you the opportunity to focus in-depth on more specialist areas that are relevant to computational science as a whole. You will also undertake an independent 4 month research project.

HPC is the use of powerful processors, networks and supercomputers to tackle problems that are very compute or data-intensive. The same HPC techniques can be used to program the world's largest supercomputer containing hundreds of thousands of processors, or to exploit the full potential of a multi-core laptop. HPC is widely used in a range of areas of science, engineering and industry. Many branches of modern science such as climate research and nanotechnology rely on complex computer models which can only be run on parallel supercomputers. Companies involved in areas such as aerospace and automative engineering, oil exploration, drug design and genetic sequencing all run computer models on HPC systems. HPC techniques are now essential for any software developer who wants to take full advantage of modern multicore processors and computing clusters.

EPCC is a Research Institute in the School of Physics at the University of Edinburgh. It has an international reputation as a leading centre of expertise in HPC and Grid computing. EPCC is the lead partner in the HPCx consortium, which supports all of the UK's national research supercomputers including the 2560-processor IBM HPCx system, and the 11,000-processor Cray HECToR system. EPCC also hosts many other powerful machines including the first IBM Blue Gene system to be installed in Europe.

Entry requirements

Applications are welcome from graduates of all areas of science, engineering, computer science and mathematics, and from those currently working in a relevant field.

The normal entry requirement is a good honours degree. Applicants with equivalent work experience may also be considered. No prior HPC knowledge is assumed, but applicants must be competent programmers in C, C++, Fortran or Java.

Further information: http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk

Contact us: msc@epcc.ed.ac.uk