Parallel Programming Courses and Certifications

Java

Make Your CPU Cores Sweat with Parallel Streams in Java 8

Learn how Java parallel streams use Fork/Join and Spliterator, and how source decomposition and ordering choices affect performance.

• YouTube
• 46 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Devoxx

Parallel and Asynchronous Programming with Streams and CompletableFuture

A deep dive into the trade-offs and pitfalls of Java 8 parallel streams and CompletableFuture, including when to use or avoid each.

• YouTube
• 3 hours 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Career Certificate

Functional Programming in Scala

10660 ratings at Coursera

Learn functional programming in Scala from its basic building blocks, then scale up to parallel programming on multicore machines and distributed data analysis with Apache Spark.

• Coursera
• 20 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 5 courses

Performance Engineering of Software Systems

9 ratings

This is an 18-unit class that provides a hands-on, project-based introduction to building scalable and high-performance software systems.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• 30 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Lucid Programming

Multiprocessing

Learn to use Python multiprocessing with locks, logging, process pools, and inter-process communication.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Devoxx

Parallel and Asynchronous Programming with Streams and CompletableFuture

Explores the gotchas of Java 8 parallel streams and asynchronous tasks, including when to use them and when to avoid them.

• YouTube
• 2 hours 35 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Advanced Java Programming

4 ratings at Udacity

Advanced Java techniques culminate in LogHog, a high-performance log analyzer using streaming, concurrency, JVM tuning, SIMD, and runtime metaprogramming.

• Udacity
• 5 hours
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Big Data in R

R has great ways to handle working with big data including programming in parallel and interfacing with Spark.

• DataCamp
• 16 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

R Developer

## Become an R Developer: Master Efficient Coding and Packaging Start your journey to becoming a skilled R Developer, even with no prior coding experience.

• DataCamp
• 2 days 4 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Trial Available

Strange Loop Conference

How to Think about Parallel Programming - Not

A critique of making programmers manage parallelism, proposing languages that expose independent, build-and-conquer computation so tasks can run in parallel transparently.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 10 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Meeting Cpp

C++ Standard Parallelism - Portable Parallel Programming Across Platforms

Explore C++ Standard Parallelism: write portable parallel code for diverse hardware platforms. Learn about common algorithms, custom algorithm creation, and task graph composition.

• YouTube
• 52 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Nvidia

How to Write a CUDA Program - The Parallel Programming Edition

Dive into parallel programming concepts with CUDA architect Stephen Jones, exploring how GPU programming differs from CPU, techniques for optimization, and strategies for overcoming common challenges in massively-parallel computing.

• YouTube
• 42 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

EuroPython Conference

Parallel Programming and Cython

Explore Cython's parallel programming capabilities, from prange loops to threading modules, C++ standard library integration, and new freethreaded Python features like critical sections.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Julia Programming Language

Kernels Without Borders - Parallel Programming with KernelAbstractions.jl

Master parallel programming across different hardware using KernelAbstractions.jl to write GPU-style kernels once and run them on CPUs, GPUs, and other devices seamlessly.

• YouTube
• 54 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Advanced Real-Life Concurrency Challenges

Practice designing efficient, thread-safe applications through real-life concurrency challenges involving downloads, caches, pipelines, sorting, and log analysis.

• CodeSignal
• 3 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate