The HPC and BigData  is a  elective course  in the MSc computer Science program of the the joined porgram VU-UvA, it is thus worth 6 ECTS for MSc students.

 

Theory (mandatory):

Lectures (6 hours) : Introduction to distributed systems  and BigData. The lectures covers a number of key topics in the field of high performance computing, namely

• Parallel programming models (45mn)
• Big Data/ MapReduce (45mn)
• Grid computing /Cloud Computing (45 mn)
• SOA and Web Service (45mn)
• Workflow (45 mn)

<p >workshops (mandatory):

• Students  will have to attend all workshops and do the assignments, the 4 highest grades of the workshop assignments will be counted in the final grade.

Course evaluation:  Students will have to submit:

• 4 out of the 5 workshops assignments practical assignments
• the Reading assignment which consists in reading and summarizing two selected papers.

 

Registration:  via https://www.sis.uva.nl. (Course enrolment through SIS is done per semester) if you are late you can still register as follows:

FNWI students that have not yet enrolled can still do so via this form in Datanose special enrole link: 

 

for more inforamtion about registration see Registration 

 

Students from other faculties can send an email to this email address: vakaanmelding-fnwi@uva.nl with their request.