Study at Chalmers University of Technology
Gothenburg, Sweden
| Programme details | |
|---|---|
| Degree: | Master of Science (MSc) |
| Discipline: |
Computer Science
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| Duration: | 24 months |
| ECTS points: | 120 |
| University website: | High-performance Computer Systems |
| Annual tuition (EEA) | tuition-free |
| Annual tuition (non-EEA) | ca. 99,100 HKD University currency: 140,000 SEK This applies to citizens of Hong Kong |
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High-performance computers will become widespread in the coming years.
With applications ranging from autonomous vehicles to data centres and the internet of things, the challenge for the industry is to design software and hardware that can keep up with the high demands for power and energy that will follow. Successfully developing and exploiting such systems and bringing them to market will be the key to the success of future computing.
If those challenges sound enticing, and you want to gain the cutting-edge skills, in-depth knowledge and methodologies required to face them, then this is the master’s programme for you.
Today and in the future, high-performance computers will be everywhere in autonomous vehicles using machine learning, in data centres fuelling telecom, and in IoT infrastructures to analyse huge volumes of data. The challenge is to design software and hardware for them to meet demanding power and energy constraints. Being able to develop and exploit such systems and bring them to the market will be the key to the success of future use of computing.
In order to drive the development of the future's high-performance computer systems, whether for software or hardware development, it is necessary to have a holistic view. This view combines how algorithms specified in a high-level language can utilize given computational structures and how computational resources should be designed and managed to achieve the high demands on computational performance and energy utilization as required by the future digital society. This programme focuses on the hardware-software co-design aspects to develop domain-specific architectures considering current emerging applications such as artificial intelligence and deep learning.
The main topic and fundamental idea behind the programme is how the needs of future industries in terms of high computational performance and energy efficiency can be met with systematic methods based on the latest research results in the field of computer systems engineering.
This master's programme in High-performance Computer Systems is for all students who would like to acquire in-depth knowledge, abilities, skills, and methodologies in the area of Computer engineering and in particular in the field of high-performance computer systems.
More specifically, it is for those students that aim at developing their knowledge, abilities, skills, and methodologies needed to:
The subjects of computer architecture, parallel programming and sustainability/energy-efficiency are fundamental areas in the High-performance computer systems master's programme.
The courses included in the programme plan also cover topics such as parallel architectures, reconfigurable systems, interconnection networks, computer graphics, real-time systems, AI and data science. Overall, the courses in the programme also cover aspects of hardware-software co-design and the use of artificial intelligence or machine learning in the different areas and topics above mentioned.
The master's programme in High-performance computer systems has been designed to be relevant to a growing industrial and governmental ICT sector (e.g. the computer game industry, database systems and, more relevant, all applications for machine learning such as autonomous vehicles). The programme gives a unique opportunity to combine academic training with engineering work experience, as well as entrepreneurship skills.
You will be prepared to work within this roles after graduation:
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