The theoretical knowledge of HPC provides the background to understand how supercomputers and HPC environments operate. This enables practitioners to effectively use such environments.

• Explain the hardware, software, and operation of HPC systems.
• Construct and judge simple performance models for systems and applications.
• Understand that there are performance frontiers.
• Compare different paradigms for the parallelization of applications.
• Construct and execute an HPC workflow on an HPC system.
• Comprehend job scheduling principles.
• Apply a cost model to compute the costs for running a workflow on an HPC system.
• Discuss data management plans.

• K1 Supercomputers
• K2 Performance Modeling
• K3 Program Parallelization
• K4 Job Scheduling
• K5 Modeling Costs
• K6 Data Management Plan