Parallel Programming: Making Large Computations Even Faster

Parallel Programming: Making Large Computations Even Faster

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In Parallel Programming: Making Larger Computations Ever Faster, students will learn about the basic purpose of using several cores is to speed up the computations, and the purpose of connecting several processors is to solve larger problems by pooling their memory. This course will demonstrate the parallel programming using MPI (Message Passing Interface), the most common library of parallel communication commands for distributed-memory clusters. Registered students will gain access to a cluster in the UMBC High Performance Computing Facility (hpcf.umbc.edu) consisting of more than 50 compute nodes with two 18-core processors each.

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