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The first week's sessions give a general introduction to parallel computing. Specific implementations will be covered in subsequent weeks of the summer school.

Prerequisites

In order to compile and run the examples this week you will use:

• the shell command line (bash)
• the GNU compiler suite (gcc, gfortran)

One exercise involves compiling and running C code, another involves compiling and running Fortran code. Familiarity with these languages will be helpful but is not required. {: .prereq}