UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE

Faculty of Mathematics and Natural SciencesParallel and Distributed Systems

Curriculum

Winter Semester 2025/2026

Lectures:

Heterogeneous and Parallel Computing
Computer Network Systems

Seminars:

Programming Principles of Distributed Systems
- for registration mail to: kessleruni-koeln.de
High-Performance Computing with GPUs
- for registration mail to: a.hertenfz-juelich.de
- last semesters info-slides :https://fz-juelich.sciebo.de/s/P0EUAA7lUP39AmK
Development with Game Engines
- for registration mail to: benoelkenuni-koeln.de

Summer Semester 2025

Lectures:

Seminars:

Programming Principles of Distributed Systems
High-Performance Computing with GPUs
- https://fz-juelich.sciebo.de/s/P0EUAA7lUP39AmK
Development with Game Engines
- Please contact Dr. Benölken for information about the registration

Theses

Bachelor and Master Thesis Topics

If you are interested in parallel and high performance computing systems, corresponding programming models, operating systems and hardware aware software development, scientific visualization, distributed systems (Clouds, IoT, ...) do not hesitate to ask us for potential thesis topics.

Currently we also offer Bachelor- and Master's thesis in collaboration with the Ad-va startup. For details, see here.

Additional Offers

Google Cloud Engineer Certificate

We are happy to announce that during the Summer Semester 2025, in collaboration with Deutsche Bank and Google, we offer a Google Cloud Engineering Certification for the first time. Participation in summer semester will be limited to around 12 students, so please reach out to us, if you are interested. Note that participation in the Cloud Continuum lecture is mandatory for this offer,

Please find more information here.