Provides a high-level introduction to modern computer node architectures of high-performance and cloud computing instances. This course is targeted to scientists, engineers, scholars, or anyone seeking to develop the software that needs to run efficiently on high-performance computing environments or in the cloud. For this course, students need basic programming skills in either C++, Fortran 90, or Python in addition to basic Linux skills. Students completing this course will have a basic understanding of how to find bottlenecks in their programs as well as how to address those bottlenecks. The course will provide a high-level introduction to modern compute node architectures of high-performance and cloud computing instances.
