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    Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
    EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

    Important dates

    Certificate Exam Date

    Start Date : 25 Apr, 2026

    Courses and Certificate Fees

    Fees InformationsCertificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
    INR 1000yesIIT Kanpur

    The Syllabus

    Introduction to CPUs
    • Introduction to High Performance Computation
    • Basic Design
    • Processors
    • Vectorization
    • Multicore Processors

    Introduction to Memory/Network/Parallel prog
    • Memory
    • Basics of Operating System (Missing Video
    • RAM
    • Interconnect
    • Parallel Computer Classification
    • Classes of Parallelism
    • Networks

    Parallel prog contd.
    • Top10 HPC Systems
    • Using GPUs for HPC
    • Parallel programming fundamentals
    • Scaling
    • Programming Practices

    Intro to Python /C, Arrays
    • Programming Language
    • Classes in Python
    • Inheritance
    • Modules in Python
    • Python Pitfalls
    • Python Arrays
    • C Arrays 1D
    • Higher-Dimensional C Arrays

    Speeding up C/Fortran/Python programs:
    • Python Codes Optimization 1
    • C++ Codes Optimization 1
    • Python Codes Optimization 2
    • C++ Codes Optimization 2
    • C++ Codes Optimization 3 (Cache locality)
    • Speeding up Using Numba

    Parallel Applications Multithreading
    • Finite Difference Method
    • Particle Simulations (Molecular Dynamics)
    • Using Multiprocessing Module
    • Cache Issues in Multiprocessing
    • Using Multithreading Module
    • Computing Sum(a*b) with Multithreads
    • Computing AX=Y with Multithreads

    MPI Porgramming
    • MPI Using Mpi4py
    • Point-To-Point Communication (1)
    • Point-To-Point Communication (2)
    • Unblocking Send/Receive
    • Collective Communication and Reduction Operation
    • Send/Receive for Finite Difference Scheme
    • MPI Sum with Examples

    CUDA programming
    • Introduction CUDA Programming
    • Introduction to C (1)
    • Introduction to C (2)
    • CUDA Programming (1)
    • CUDA Programming (2)
    • Examples Using CUDA Programming
    • Matrix Multiplication
    • Derivative Computation Using Finite Difference

    Cupy, OpenACC programming
    • Cupy Programming
    • CUDA Programming with Numba
    • Introduction to Open ACC Programming 1
    • Introduction to Open ACC Programming 2
    • Solving Laplace Equation / OpenACC UPDATE Directives and Clauses

    MPI/OpenMP in C
    • Introduction to MPI in C
    • MPI Environment
    • Point to Point Communications
    • Collective Communication & Reduction Operation
    • Using OPENMP

    Applications/Visualization/Profiling
    • FFT
    • Spectral Method
    • Profiling
    • Paraview

    Case Study
    • Project 1: Cahn-Hilliard Equation
    • Project 2: Compressible Flow
    • Project 3: Ising Model
    • Project 4: Magnetohydrodynamic
    • Project 5: Molecular Dynamics
    • Project 6: Nonlinear Schrodinger Eq.
    • Project 7: XY Model
    • Summary

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