This course is designed for scientists, engineers, students, and professionals looking to develop efficient solutions for high-performance and distributed computing systems. It focuses on parallel programming using the Message Passing Interface (MPI), a standard for scalable communication across multiple processors. Learners should have basic programming experience in C or C++ and familiarity with Linux. No prior knowledge of MPI is required.

Parallel Computing with MPI

Parallel Computing with MPI
This course is part of High-Performance and Parallel Computing Specialization


Instructors: Shelley Knuth
What you'll learn
Design and implement parallel algorithms using MPI
Apply key communication patterns, including point-to-point, collective, and nonblocking communication
Improve performance through load balancing and overlapping communication with computation
Work with custom communicators and derived data types
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Taught in English
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This course is part of the High-Performance and Parallel Computing Specialization
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Reviewed on Feb 24, 2026
Short and straight forward to the key concept of parallel computing.
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