The Advanced Certificate in Parallel and Distributed Computing will give you the necessary skills to master the latest problem-solving technologies and large-scale computing that are needed to meet ever evolving technological advances. Computers used to be made faster and more efficient by increasing their speed. The practical limits of such speeds has been reached. The only way to continue making ever-faster computers is to combine many of them for use in solving individual problems. The science and art of solving problems this way is the subject of our new Advanced Certificate. Top-of-the-line computers are now sold routinely with multiple processors, and those who know how to program them are at a decided advantage in software development.