Ebook: Parallel computing technologies: proceedings of the International Conference, Novosibirsk, USSR, September 7-11, 1991

We are currently entering ah era of developed parallelism. Parallelism provides the high performance needed in science and engineering, the responsiveness required in real-time control, the fault-tolerance necessary for high reliability systems, etc. These capabilities become available for use in an increasing number of applications but offer new challenges to the system designer and programmer.