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Spring 2013
May 05, 2024
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CNIT 46000 - High Performance Computing Systems
Credit Hours: 3.00. This course provides an introduction to high performance, cluster, and grid computing from a systems perspective. The driving outcome for this course is for students to understand and apply high performance computing concepts, architectures, and software components to develop and operate a high performance computing environment. Topics include: high performance computer architectures, network architectures for High Performance Computing (HPC), commodity and open-source cluster architectures, and software systems. Typically offered Fall Spring Summer.
3.000 Credit hours

Syllabus Available
Levels: Undergraduate, Graduate, Professional
Schedule Types: Distance Learning, Lecture

Offered By: College of Technology
Department: Computer Information Tech

Course Attributes:
Upper Division

May be offered at any of the following campuses:     
      West Lafayette
      Anderson
      Columbus
      Indianapolis
      Greensburg
      Kokomo
      Lafayette
      New Albany
      Richmond
      South Bend
      Vincennes

Learning Outcomes: 1. Understand factors that motivate the use and development of high performance computers and supercomputing systems. 2. Demonstrate skill in developing high performance computing systems. 3. Understand the continuum of high performance computing architectures. 4. Understand appropriateness of each architecture type to problem solving for a wide variety of applications. 5. Understand the effects of communications architecture and performance characteristics on application performance. 6. Demonstrate the use of commodity components in high performance computing and the trends and forces that motivate their use. 7. Demonstrate the use of tools and techniques of cluster and high performance computing.


Prerequisites:
Undergraduate level CNIT 34000 Minimum Grade of C-

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