EPCC’s MSc in High Performance Computing
EPCC, at the University of Edinburgh, offers a one-year taught Masters course in High Performance Computing (HPC). This well-established programme provides an excellent grounding in HPC technologies and their practical application.EPCC is an Institute within the School of Physics at the University of Edinburgh. It has an international reputation as a leading centre of expertise in HPC and Grid computing. EPCC is the lead partner in the HPCx consortium, which supports all of the UK’s national research supercomputers including the 2560-processor IBM HPCx system, and the 11,000-processor Cray HECToR system. EPCC also hosts many other powerful machines including the first IBM Blue Gene system to be installed in Europe.Over the last two decades the use of powerful computers and networks has become very important. Many new and exciting research areas have opened up, for example in physics, chemistry, climate research, engineering and biology. Studying these topics using HPC requires leading-edge computer science.
This MSc will appeal if you have a keen interest in programming and would like to learn about HPC and parallel computing. The course has a strong practical focus and you will have access to leading-edge HPC platforms and technologies. The MSc provides a doorway to a wide variety of future careers. Previous graduates have gone on to further PhD research in areas which utilise HPC technologies such as astrophysics, biology, chemistry, geosciences, informatics and materials science. Other students have found employment directly in a range of commercial areas including software development, petroleum engineering and HPC support.
The MSc is awarded by the University of Edinburgh. Graduates will hold one of the few university-accredited postgraduate HPC qualifications in Europe.
A number of funded studentships are available for UK and EU residents. It is also possible to study part-time: please contact the MSc programme coordinator for more information. We also offer, in our capacity as an HEC Graduate Training Centre, the opportunity to combine our Masters course with a PhD from another UK institution.
EPCC is active in a new research centre for Numerical Algorithms and Intelligent Software (NAIS). This centre will develop the mathematical foundations of innovative tools for scientific and engineering computation on multiprocessing high-performance computers. NAIS is a collaboration between Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt and Strathclyde universities, supported by a £5m grant from EPSRC.
NAIS offers a number of funded PhD positions which also include the opportunity to follow EPCC’s MSc in HPC. For more information on these PhD projects see http://www.nais.org.uk/vacancies/.
EPCC is an institute within the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh. It has an international reputation as a world-leading centre of expertise in HPC and Grid computing. The MSc is supported by EPSRC.