Dutch-Russian double degree master's program curricula in computational science and high performance computing

From the moment of the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russian higher education underwent drastic changes to international standards and enter the European Higher Education Area on equal terms. Joint efforts of Russian and Dutch peers and strong incentives from high-tech industries helped to launch new educational programs in Computational Science. Our international team of educators attempts to pick the best from the curricula and educational methods of post-Soviet programs and adopt the world's best practices in engineering education. In this paper we describe the curricula of a double-degree Master's program in Supercomputer Technologies in Interdisciplinary Research of the ITMO University and the University of Amsterdam and newly-developed programs in Big Data and Urban Supercomputing. We comment on the form and content of our programs and give some examples of student research topics.

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