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Section one: INTRODUCTION TO HPC and PARALLEL CONCEPTS

Day 1: introduction to HPC

date: Tuesday 28/09/2023

lectures

• Stefano Cozzini : introduction to HPC

The lecture above introduces HPC concepts and basic definitions.

There is plenty of materials on the topic on the web. Here a few links to start with:

• FLOPS definition from wikipedia
• HPC short introduction from European perspective
• a must read paper: Reinventing High Performance Computing: Challenges and Opportunities
• what can we do with an exascale machine
• the www.top500.org: it deserves a visit to check a few things

Application ( not discussed in lecture)

• Folding@home project: take a look
• AlphaFold web page

Materials for Linux beginners:

• one simple tutorial to start using ssh
• linux/unix shell short tutorial for novice users