The course aims to acquaint the PhD students with parallel architectures and algorithms. It also includes practical exercises using standard parallel programming MPI and OpenMP. The course covers:

• Parallel architectures, parallel algorithms and evaluation of parallel efficiency;
• Standards for parallel programming;
• Basic operations using the standard MPI and OpenMP;
• Methods and paradigms for parallel programming.

The course is suitable for PhD students with an interest in programming and/or the use of modern HPC systems, as the supercomputer Avitohol and the newest HPC system in IICT-BAS.
It is imperative that doctoral students have a basic knowledge of programming languages C/C ++, FORTRAN or Python. A knowledge of the operating system Linux is welcome.