LECTURE: HPC Architectures [pre-recorded]

Overview

Teaching: 20 min
Exercises: 0 min

Questions

• What components make up a high-performance computer?

• How are they typically connected together?

• What does this mean for how software runs?

Objectives

• Understand typical/common architectures of HPC machines

• Understand the difference between a shared memory and a distributed memory architecture

Slides

This talk is being provided as a pre-recorded presentation

The slides used can be found here.

Key Points