Schedule
Spring 2025
This page has not yet been updated for academic year 2025–26.
Where, when, and how
- Lectures are on Fridays 13:00–15:00 in room I.1.08. Recordings will be available on Canvas for working students or if you are absent due to unforseen circumstances, e.g. illness.
- Exercises sessions are on Fridays 15:00–17:00, also in room I.1.08. The exercises are no longer in a computer room, you are expected to bring your own laptop. The VUB has some support programmes for buying or renting a laptop.
Topics
| Date | Topic |
|---|---|
| 14 Feb | Introduction, multicore hardware, basic terminology, laws of parallel programming |
| 21 Feb | Erlang: sequential programming, concurrent programming |
| 28 Feb | (Cancelled) |
| 7 Mar | Erlang: distributed programming, fault tolerance |
| 14 Mar |
Erlang: the actor model, comparison with other frameworks; Benchmarking: approach, pitfalls, statistics, reporting |
| 21 Mar | GPU Programming using OpenCL: introduction |
| 28 Mar | GPU Programming using OpenCL: memory hierarchy |
| 4 Apr | GPU Programming using OpenCL: optimization |
| 11 Apr | (Easter break) |
| 18 Apr | (Easter break) |
| 25 Apr | Clojure: introduction, sequential programming |
| 2 May | Clojure: persistent data structures, atoms, agents |
| 9 May | Clojure: software transactional memory |
| 16 May | Clojure: software transactional memory |
| 23 May |
Communicating Sequential Programming and channels; Categories of concurrency models (task vs. data paralellism, message passing vs. shared memory) |
Project deadlines
This section will be updated before the start of the semester.