MSc High Performance Computing Engineering
Politecnico di Milano
About this program
MSc High-Performance Computing Engineering
High-Performance Computing (HPC) Engineering is a highly multidisciplinary programme, which aims at training engineers with a solid preparation in information technologies and computer architectures for supercomputing, quantum computing, and mathematical-statistical modeling of complex problems.
HPC applications can be found in nearly every industry handling most data-intensive workloads, thanks to powerful simulation and to the parallelization of the computational load on high-performance hardware that allows to strongly accelerate the analysis of large amounts of data, as well as the execution of increasingly complex and sophisticated artificial intelligence algorithms with unmatched speed, precision, and insight.
Admission requirements
All candidates (coming from Politecnico di Milano or from other academic institutions) must apply according to the specified procedures and deadlines set by Politecnico di Milano for admission to Laurea Magistrale programmes.
To be admitted to the Study Course in High-Performance Computing Engineering, candidates need to have a Laurea Triennale in the following Degree Classes:
- L7 (Civil and Environmental Engineering)
- L8 (Computing Systems Engineering)
- L9 (Industrial Engineering)
- L31 (Computer Science).
More generally, it is necessary to have a degree of at least three years’ duration, or obtained through the acquisition of at least 180 credits, of which:
- at least 20 credits related to the disciplinary-scientific sectors INF/01 or ING-INF/05
- at least 20 credits related to the disciplinary-scientific sectors ranging from MAT/01 to MAT/09, and SECS-S/01
- at least 10 credits related to disciplinary-scientific sectors ranging from FIS/01 to FIS/08.
An integral part of the verification of personal preparation is the adequate knowledge of the English language that must be certified, during the application for admission, through the achievement of minimum levels of score in the English proficiency tests recognized by Politecnico di Milano.
For further information on admissions requirements, please contact the institute.
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Year One
Semester One
- Parallel Computing
- Advanced Methods for Scientific Computing
- Numerical Linear Algebra
- Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations
Semester Two
- Quantum Physics
- Computing Infrastructures
- Software Engineering For HPC
- Advanced Computer Architectures
- Applied Statistics
Split Between Semesters One and Two
- 5 CFU of elective courses from ICT group
- 10 CFU of elective courses from MATH/PHYS group
Year Two
Semester One
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Systems and Methods for Big and Unstructured Data
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Artificial Neural Networks and Deep Learning
Semester Two
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Final Project
Split Between Semesters One and Two
- 5 CFU of Elective Courses from ICT Group
- 20 CFU of Elective Courses from Multidisciplinary Applications Group
Program delivery
The study course in High-Performance Computing Engineering is a two-year programme with a curriculum of 120 credits (Laurea Magistrale / Master’s Degree, degree class LM-32 – Computer systems engineering).
The first year offers a set of courses related to parallel computing and programming, high-performance parallel processors, cloud infrastructures and data centers, numerical analysis, and applied statistics.
The second-year includes courses in Quantum Computing and heterogeneous HPC systems based on accelerators (GPUs and tensor cores).
Moreover, there will be 20 credits focused on the application of HPC in different engineering domains and final thesis work (20 credits) that can be carried out even in an industry-oriented context or abroad.
Tuition
EEA and Non-EEA students but residents in Italy
Tuition fees for EEA and Non-EEA students but residents in Italy range from about 888,59 € to 3.891,59 € per year.
Students admitted in the 1st semester usually have a standard yearly study plan between 46 and 74 CFU, which corresponds to 100% of the tuition fees due.
Students admitted in the 2nd semester usually have a standard yearly study plan of about 32 CFU, which corresponds to 50% of the tuition due.
Non-EEA students
Tuition fees for Non-EEA students correspond automatically to the full contribution of 3.891,59 €.
Students admitted in the 1st semester usually have a standard yearly study plan between 46 and 74 CFU, corresponding to 100% of the tuition fees due (3.003 €).
Students admitted in the 2nd semester usually have a standard yearly study plan of about 30 to 32 CFU, corresponding to 50% of the tuition due (1.501,50 €).
Qualification
MSc High-Performance Computing Engineering
Laurea Magistrale (LM-32) 120 credits
Career paths
Among the main professional and employment opportunities there are, as an example and certainly not exhaustively, companies specialised in information technology or in complex computational problems in various application domains, for which in-depth design studies and simulations are needed, research centers on high-performance computing, and the academy.
In Italy, the Master’s Degree in HPC Engineering allows graduates to access – after passing a State Exam – the Class of Information Engineering (“Ingegneria dell’Informazione”), Section A of the National Professional Register of Engineers, with the title of Engineer.
The qualification also grants access to Ph.D programmes (“Dottorati di Ricerca”), 2nd level Specialisation Courses (“Corsi di Specializzazione di secondo livello”) and 2nd level University Masters (“Master Universitari di secondo livello”).
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