High Performance Computing - Texas State Technical College - Waco

High Performance Computing from Texas State Technical College - Waco is a Campus Associate Computer and Information Science degree that prepares you for a IT career. Cloud computing, high performance computing and extreme digital services are changing the computer industry as we know it. Supercomputing or HPC, as it is known in the field, has been taken to a completely new level, with the largest machines reaching computational speeds of more than a petaflop. (Think a thousand trillion floating point operations per second!) Currently, the industry is moving so fast that every computer will have hundreds of processors. That means HPC technicians will be in great demand. And, nowadays, nearly every industry is using the technique of supercomputing to solve some of humanity's most amazing challenges ? from finding cures for long-standing diseases, to deciphering the latest problems in quantum physics. In fact, HPC is now used by many of the world's leading employers, including Sandia National Laboratories, the U.S. Department of Defense, major universities such as MIT, Stanford and CalTech, in the criminal justice system, and just about anywhere high performance computing can speed up the process of solving problems and amass data swiftly. Because the need for trained technicians is expanding rapidly, Texas State Technical College is offering an associate degree to prepare you for the exciting world of HPC. Backed by experienced staff and an advisory board of industry experts, you can learn to support, build, maintain and program supercomputers ? and have the skills for a job that is both challenging and greatly rewarding. The degree program is designed to get you quickly into the workforce, or, for those who prefer, into a larger institution supporting research and continuing your education in the exciting world of computational science . View more details on Texas State Technical College - Waco . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Computer and Information Science courses.