Skip to content.

Sri Lankan Blog

Study “Supercomputing” in New Zealand

Tuesday, 20 January 2009

The University of Canterbury, the first institution in the Southern Hemisphere to have an IBM Blue Gene supercomputer, is to become the first tertiary institution in Australasia to teach high performance computing.

(via University of Canterbury) Four new courses this year will teach students how to use the latest technology in parallel computing and state-of-the-art computing architectures. Ten scholarships (eight domestic, two international) funded by the University and IBM will be available for students taking the courses.

"This development shows UC to be at the forefront of high performance computing and reflects our recognition that 21st century students need 21st century skills," said Professor Tim David, Director of the Centre for Bioengineering, in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

The courses will be taught by Paul Walmsley, an acknowledged expert in high performance computing and an Adjunct Senior Fellow at UC.

They will provide students with an understanding of the different types of parallel computer architectures that are used in computational science and engineering disciplines to solve complex problems.

They will also introduce students to grid computing, a phenomenon becoming more widely used in scientific computing.

2 comments:

ihsanullah said...

i am the student of forestry of final year, i want to take admission in any of the unuversity of NZ.so plz help me. i shall be very thankfull to it may concerned.thanks

Monday, 26 January 2009 06:46 AM

harpreet singh randhava said...

I am student of M.Sc Dairy Technology.I want to study in Newzeland anywhere.Please suggest me! 
house31

Monday, 23 February 2009 04:35 AM

Post a comment