High-Performance Programming with Multicore and GPUs

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The course seeks to address application performance, which is one of the key requirements of HPC applications. Performance is a difficult requirement to satisfy as it involves issues varying from hardware to software. Moreover, the course studies the underlying environment and the design decisions necessary to achieve good performance. After course completion students should have a practical understanding of the general issues and methodologies associated with designing building and refactoring codes to meet performance requirements. Number Name Credits