Indian Institute of Technology (IITs) Goa, Kharagpur, Madras and Palakkad are organising a 13-week online course on ‘High-Performance Computing’, which is open to all. The three-month course is open to anyone who has an interest in the subject and is scheduled to start in November 2020.
For students from any institution, the course is priced at ₹1000. For others, it costs ₹4000. A total of 1,500 seats are available, post which the registrations will end. While the course is open for all, it would be most suited for those pursuing their PhD, those pursuing their third of final year undergraduate course in science or engineering, Masters in any science or engineering stream or non-students who have some knowledge on programming in ‘C’ or ‘Fortan’ and those working with Linux.
Class schedule and exams
Online classes will be held from 5pm to 6.30pm and each class will consist of a one-hour lecture, followed by half-an-hour of question and answer. One must maintain a minimum of 60% attendance to be able to appear for the online examination. At the end of the course, an online examination will be conducted, and those who top the same will receive books as their prize. Others who do well will receive a certificate with grades while others will be given a participation certificate.
Topics covered
Some of the topics that will be covered are basic concepts: cores, nodes, threads, processes, performance measurement in sequential programs, cache, the principle of locality, shared memory, distributed memory, communication, measuring performance via communication volume and bandwidth, and so on.
How to apply?
Students who are applying need to keep a scanned copy of their ID card handy.
Registration will go through only upon the payment of the course fee. Once registered, a UTR number will be shared, make note of the same for all future correspondences.
Click here for the link to register: https://www.iitgoa.ac.in/hpcshiksha/login.php?action=login
Important dates
Registration period –October 16 to October 25, 2020
The course begins on November 9, 2020 and ends in February 2021. In case of any query, one can contact here- support@iitgoa.ac.in
