New EPCC online course: Fundamentals of HPC System Administration
24 October 2024
EPCC’s online postgraduate programmes offer flexible learning, making them a good fit for learning in the professional development context. We offer MSc, Postgraduate Diploma, Postgraduate Certificate, and stand-alone Continuing Professional Development courses.
EPCC has extensive expertise not only in scientific software development but also in high performance computing (HPC) systems administration, and we impart that knowledge to our students through the courses we teach.
The newest addition to our portfolio of online courses is Fundamentals of HPC System Administration, which was created to provide skills in key areas such as:
- Cluster management technologies
- Deploying and managing scheduling solutions
- Working with parallel file systems
- Networking and interconnects
- Information security for HPC services.
Course benefits
The Fundamentals of HPC Systems Administration course will prepare students for the administration of HPC clusters, systems and services, an area which currently lacks structured training. We hope that in doing so we will provide a valuable service to the HPC and broader data science communities.
By taking this course, students will gain understanding of the key concepts and skills necessary to create and manage HPC services and their components. It will be of great benefit to those who already have some understanding of system administration and would like to learn about the specifics of system administration for HPC.
The skills it will provide are in great demand in both the public and private sectors and so will be advantageous to career progression.
Why study with us?
The Fundamentals of HPC Systems Administration course is underpinned by EPCC's long experience of operating UK national supercomputing services and novel systems at the Advanced Computing Facility. We have drawn on our real-world knowledge to ensure this course matches the requirements of prospective employers and the evolving HPC ecosystem.
Links
Full details of the new Fundamentals of HPC Systems Administration course are available at: http://www.drps.ed.ac.uk/current/dpt/cxepcd11021.htm
It is currently scheduled to run in the second semester of every academic year, from mid-January to May. Please note that anyone interested in taking this course only should apply through the Postgraduate Professional Development route. This course is only available online.
Applications for online programmes for the academic year 25/26 are open now. To apply, please see the links below.
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