THE CONTEXT OF PARALLEL PROCESSING The field of digital computer architecture has grown explosively in the past two decades. Through a steady stream of experime

Advancements in microprocessor architecture, interconnection technology, and software development have fueled rapid growth in parallel and distributed computing

A complete source of information on almost all aspects of parallel computing from introduction, to architectures, to programming paradigms, to algorithms, to pr

In modern computer science, there exists no truly sequential computing system; and most advanced programming is parallel programming. This is particularly evide

Motivation It is now possible to build powerful single-processor and multiprocessor systems and use them efficiently for data processing, which has seen an expl