High Performance and Cloud Computing 24 months Postgraduate Programme By KFUPM |TopUniversities
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Programme Duration

24 monthsProgramme duration

Main Subject Area

Computer Science and Information SystemsMain Subject Area

Programme overview

Main Subject

Computer Science and Information Systems

Degree

MSci

Study Level

Masters

Study Mode

Blended

Cloud and high performance computing is one of the fastest growing computing areas, whose job market is growing rapidly across the globe. This interdisciplinary program is designed to equip students with the needed knowledge to design, build, operate, use, and maintain large systems designed for hosting cloud applications or running compute-intensive tasks for simulation and other purposes, as well as small computing modules designed to operate the edge of the network. This skill is highly demanded in numerous sectors: energy, healthcare, telecommunications, big data, e-commerce, defense, etc.

This program provides in-depth coverage of modern computing architectures and programming paradigms. Topics include parallel process architectures (parallel and pipelined dataflow, vectorization methods, interconnection, etc.), GPU architecture (functional units, CUDA, memory access coalescing, shared memory usage, etc.), distributed computing (threads, and abstraction, mutual exclusion, condition variables, atomic instructions, etc.), and quantum computing (qubits, entanglement, quantum protocols, quantum machine learning, etc.). The program also covers cloud and edge computing (cloud services, RESTful APIs, XaaS pyramid, serverless computing, cloud big data processing, etc.), parallel algorithms (divide-and-conquer, parallel prefix, pointer jumping, list ranking, Euler's path, ear decomposition, parallel complexity etc.), and big data analytics (smart clouds, machine learning and visualization of big data, privacy, etc.). Essential knowledge of linear algebra is also included (e.g. direct methods for large sparse linear systems, LU factorizations, regularization of ill-conditioned least squares problems).

Programme overview

Main Subject

Computer Science and Information Systems

Degree

MSci

Study Level

Masters

Study Mode

Blended

Cloud and high performance computing is one of the fastest growing computing areas, whose job market is growing rapidly across the globe. This interdisciplinary program is designed to equip students with the needed knowledge to design, build, operate, use, and maintain large systems designed for hosting cloud applications or running compute-intensive tasks for simulation and other purposes, as well as small computing modules designed to operate the edge of the network. This skill is highly demanded in numerous sectors: energy, healthcare, telecommunications, big data, e-commerce, defense, etc.

This program provides in-depth coverage of modern computing architectures and programming paradigms. Topics include parallel process architectures (parallel and pipelined dataflow, vectorization methods, interconnection, etc.), GPU architecture (functional units, CUDA, memory access coalescing, shared memory usage, etc.), distributed computing (threads, and abstraction, mutual exclusion, condition variables, atomic instructions, etc.), and quantum computing (qubits, entanglement, quantum protocols, quantum machine learning, etc.). The program also covers cloud and edge computing (cloud services, RESTful APIs, XaaS pyramid, serverless computing, cloud big data processing, etc.), parallel algorithms (divide-and-conquer, parallel prefix, pointer jumping, list ranking, Euler's path, ear decomposition, parallel complexity etc.), and big data analytics (smart clouds, machine learning and visualization of big data, privacy, etc.). Essential knowledge of linear algebra is also included (e.g. direct methods for large sparse linear systems, LU factorizations, regularization of ill-conditioned least squares problems).

Admission Requirements

2 Years

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