Efficient Programming
This course is targeted to scientists, engineers, scholars, or anyone seeking to solve problems efficiently in high-performance computing environments or in the cloud. Students completing this course will have a basic understanding of how to find bottlenecks in their programs as well as how to address those bottlenecks. The course will provide a high-level introduction to modern compute node architectures of high-performance and cloud computing instances. This course can be taken for academic credit as part of CU Boulder’s Master of Science in Data Science (MS-DS) degree offered on the Cour
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