- Posted by Stuart Fraser on September 17, 2009
So its time to make some choices, I have to chooses which 3 of the modules I am going to take.
for term 1 my choices are:
Design and Analysis of Parallel Algorithms
Computer Networking
Web Programming
Applied Databases
Tools and Techniques
Applied Numeric Algorithms
Computing with Distributed Resources
BioInformatics 1
Well, obviously I've done a whole bunch of web and database programming using proper tools 
and have built some large scale network systems over my twenty years of networking. Biology, er what?!?! [Actually by avoiding Bio stuff then that clears friday afternoons term 1 and the whole of wednesday term 2 
].
So I think Im heading for a hard core HPC diet of algorithims, analysis and perhaps some distributed computing.
I have to make term 2 choices soon as well so I will write that up later.
The full list of modules can be found at the MSc site int he student handbook : http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/msc/