Parallel programming, Certificate | Part time online | Coursera | United States
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This Parallel programming offered by Coursera in partnership with École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne is part of the Functional Programming in Scala Specialization.

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Overview

With every smartphone and computer now boasting multiple processors, the use of functional ideas to facilitate parallel programming is becoming increasingly widespread. In this course, you'll learn the fundamentals of parallel programming, from task parallelism to data parallelism. In particular, you'll see how many familiar ideas from functional programming map perfectly to to the data parallel paradigm. 

We'll start the nuts and bolts how to effectively parallelize familiar collections operations, and we'll build up to parallel collections, a production-ready data parallel collections library available in the Scala standard library. Throughout this  Parallel programming offered by Coursera in partnership with École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, we'll apply these concepts through several hands-on examples that analyze real-world data, such as popular algorithms like k-means clustering.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course you will be able to:

  • reason about task and data parallel programs,
  • express common algorithms in a functional style and solve them in parallel,
  • competently microbenchmark parallel code,
  • write programs that effectively use parallel collections to achieve performance

Programme Structure

Courses include:

  • Parallel Programming
  • Basic Task Parallel Algorithms
  • Data-Parallelism
  • Data Structures for Parallel Computing

Key information

Duration

  • Part-time
    • 1 months

Start dates & application deadlines

You can apply for and start this programme anytime.

Language

English

Delivered

Online

Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

Other requirements

General requirements

Intermediate Level

  • Recommended background: You should have at least one year programming experience. Proficiency with Java or C# is ideal, but experience with other languages such as C/C++, Python, Javascript or Ruby is also sufficient. You should have some familiarity using the command line. This course is intended to be taken after Functional Program Design in Scala.

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Funding

Coursera provides financial aid to learners who cannot afford the fee. Apply for it by clicking on the Financial Aid link beneath the "Enroll" button on the left. You'll be prompted to complete an application and will be notified if you are approved. You'll need to complete this step for each course in the Specialization, including the Capstone Project. 

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