new on-line course about Supercomputing (delivered by PRACE)

Dear users,
I would like to advertize you about a very interesting initiative of PRACE, the European Partnership per Advanced COmputing.
 
———————————————————————–Free online course: Supercomputing———————————————————————–
www.futurelearn.com/courses/supercomputing
 Today’s supercomputers are the most powerful calculating machines ever invented, capable of performing more than a thousand million million calculations every second. This gives scientists and engineers a powerful new tool to study the natural world: computer simulation.     This free online course will introduce you to what supercomputers are, how they are used and how we can exploit their full computational potential to make scientific breakthroughs. 
  * Register now for the first run on 6th March 2017! * 
The course has been developed by the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) and EPCC at The University of Edinburgh in collaboration with SURFsara from The Netherlands.
 www.futurelearn.com/courses/supercomputing———————————————————————–