Objectives

Provide the students with an appreciation of what parallel computing is and how it can play a significant role in high performance computing

Expose the students to the distributed memory paradigm and to the message passing environment within the MPI framework

Expose the students to GPU computing

Expose the students to Intel Xeon Phi computing

Expose the students to a "structured approach" in using parallel computing platforms in actual problems

Stress the hands-on approach by giving numerous examples