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Degree Programme Table: High Performance Computing (MSc) (Full-time) (PTMSCHPCMP1F)


Year 1, Academic year 2010/11, Starting month: September

  • Notes: Students must meet with their Director of Studies to discuss their course options.


    • COMPULSORY COURSES
    This DPT has 7 compulsory course(s).


    Code  Course Name  Period  Credits 
    PGPH11007 Message Passing Programming Semester 1 10
    PGPH11005 Practical Software Development Semester 1 10
    PGPH11003 Shared Memory Programming Semester 1 10
    PGPH11038 Project Preparation (HPC) Semester 2 10
    PGPH11013 Advanced Topics in HPC and e-Science Semester 2 10
    PGPH11009 Dissertation (HPC) Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond 60
    PGPH11014 Fundamental Concepts of High Performance Computing Semester 1 10




    COURSE OPTIONS
    This DPT has 2 set(s) of course options with the following rules.


    Overarching rule collection group: A  
    Select exactly 60 credits from these collections:  


    Select a minimum of 30 credits and maximum of 60 credits from the following list of courses for the Programme Collection: 'Physics & Astronomy - MSc HPC Options' (ROU_A-Q_PTMSCHPCMP1F1_11) , as available.
                        
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    PGPH11008    Applied Numerical Algorithms   10  
    PGPH11042    Computer Simulation using HPC: Techniques and Applications   10  
    PGPH11004    Hardware, Compilers and Performance Programming   10  
    PGPH11012    Object Oriented Programming for HPC   10  
    PGPH11006    Parallel Decomposition   10  
    PGPH11021    Performance Scaling on Modern HPC Architectures   10  
    PGPH11041    Tools and Techniques for HPC Programming   10  

     

    Select a minimum of 0 credits and maximum of 30 credits from the following list of courses for the Programme Collection: 'Physics & Astronomy - MSc HPC - External Course Options' (ROU_A-Q_PTMSCHPCMP1F2_11) , as available.
                              
    Code   Course Name   Credits
    INFR11015    Applied Databases   10  
    INFR11028    Design and Analysis of Parallel Algorithms   10  
    INFR11049    Computer Networking (Level 11)   10  
    INFR11016    Bioinformatics 1   10  
    INFR11005    Bioinformatics 2   10  
    PGPH11062    Web Programming   10  
    PGPH11063    Computing with Distributed Resources   10  
    PGPH11064    Internet Computing   10  
    MATH11111    Fundamentals of Optimization   10  

     


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