Publisher's Synopsis
It is thus essential for all students of computing and users of computers to have an understand-ing of the basic issues involved in parallel computing. This introductory text gives an elementary and self-contained presentation of parallel computing, beginning from the notion of parallelism in formulating algorithms and ending with some recent work in parallel computing. The book is primarily meant for scientists and engineers who have a basic knowledge of programming in a high level language such as Pascal and who wish to have an understanding of the structure of parallel computers and their applications in various situations.
