Prerequisite: Students must either take or pass a placement test for the course “Introduction to Cluster Computing: Linux, shell scripting, queuing systems, cluster architecture”. This course does not count towards the required 3 HPE DSI courses in the HPC Certificate Program.

Students are required to take and pass 3 skill-based, rather than academic, short courses (15 contact-hours each) offered by HPE DSI.

The following blocks are offered. Students are encouraged to pick one course from each block.

A) Scientific Programming Languages

• Scientific Programming with C++
• Scientific Programming with Python
• Scientific Programming with R

B) Parallel Programming 

• OpenMP Programming
• MPI Programming
• GPU Programming

C) Tools

• Debugging and Performance Tuning: Gnu Debugger, Gnu Profiler, Intel Debugger, Intel Profiler
• Machine Learning: data analytics, deep learning, predictive analytics
• Scientific Visualization and Data Analysis: VisIt and Paraview

The courses are free. Students can register through our course management system.