Schedule
Spring 2026
This page has not yet fully been updated for academic year 2025–26. It will be updated in the weeks before the start of the semester.
Where, when, and how
- Lectures and exercises are on Fridays 13:00–17:00 in room ???.
- Lecture recordings will be available on Canvas for working students or if you are absent due to unforseen circumstances, e.g. illness.
- Exercises are available on the website, via the link on Canvas. Solutions will be published after each session on Canvas.
- 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.
Lecture topics
| Date | Topic |
|---|---|
| 13 Feb | Introduction, multicore hardware, basic terminology, laws of parallel programming |
| 20 Feb | Erlang: sequential programming, concurrent programming |
| 27 Feb | Erlang: distributed programming, fault tolerance |
| 6 Mar |
Erlang: the actor model, comparison with other frameworks; GPU Programming using OpenCL: introduction |
| 13 Mar | GPU Programming using OpenCL: memory hierarchy |
| 20 Mar | GPU Programming using OpenCL: optimization |
| 27 Mar |
GPU Programming using OpenCL (conclusion); Benchmarking: approach, pitfalls, statistics, reporting |
| 3 Apr | Clojure: introduction, sequential programming |
| 10 Apr | (Spring break) |
| 17 Apr | (Spring break) |
| 24 Apr | Clojure: persistent data structures, atoms, agents |
| Week of 1 May | (To be determined) |
| 8 May | Clojure: software transactional memory |
| 15 May | Clojure: software transactional memory |
| 22 May |
Communicating Sequential Programming and channels; Categories of concurrency models (task vs. data parallelism, message passing vs. shared memory) |