This workshop is for students who wish to use the high performance computing resource at the College (the HPC cluster). The pace of the course is suitable for anyone who knows basics of the command line and has no prior experience with HPC. Students who have used the HPC system may also benefit by formalising their knowledge and expanding their overview of parallel methods. Although, the course contains material specific to the local resource, it provides generic skills portable to resources at other universities. 

The Imperial HPC cluster is a central resource that covers a large part of the College’s scientific computing needs.  You will learn how to set up a project and then proceed to deploying simple computations. Next, we will consider data parallelism that is especially useful if you find yourself processing a large number of files or repeating the same task many times over with varying inputs.  Finally, we will move onto the fundamentals of parallel computing and demonstrate how to deploy parallel programs on the resource.  The class is entirely hands-on, you will follow the instructor and will have time for independent exercises.