Practical Parallel Computing: Status and Prospects (Concurrency, Practice and Experience, Vol 3, Issue 6)

This is a special issue of the journal Concurrency: Practice and Experience. It synthesizes contributions from researchers at the forefront of this leading-edge technology and reports the latest results from internationally renowned research centers. Describes actual experiences in solving a wide range of scientific and computationally-intensive problems. Discusses such state of the art systems as massively parallel computers, parallel and distributed object-oriented systems and various types of connection machines. Includes applications from disciplines ranging from neural networking to image analysis, fluid flows and seismic modeling.