Download or read book Highly Parallel Computing written by George S. Almasi and published by Addison Wesley Longman. This book was released on 1994 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition includes new exercises for each chapter, a quantitative treatment of speedup, seismic migration, using a workstation network as a parallel computer, recent changes in technology, more languages, fat trees, wormhole switching, new SIMD hardware, an expanded section on CM-2, new MIMD hardware, using workstation clusters as a MIMD system, and directory based caches. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR