This book provides the readers with the necessary knowledge to design a new computersystem; to improve an existing one; to develop fast computing algorithms; and toallocate hardware-software resources in solving large-scale computing problems.Features: Extensive use of high-performance mainframe computers, attached vectorprocessors, scientific supercomputers, and multiprocessors to solve specificapplications problems Parallel processing can be applied at the hardware/software system level or at thealgorithmic and programming level