Tools and Environments for Parallel and Distributed Computing

• An invaluable reference for anyone designing new parallel or distributed systems.
• Includes detailed case studies of specific systems from Stanford, MIT, and other leading research universities.
• The authors emphasize performance, surveying all available techniques.

MANISH PARASHAR, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, where he is Director of The Applied Software Systems Laboratory (TASSL). Professor Parashar is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award and the Enrico Fermi scholarship, and is a senior member of the IEEE. In addition to publishing over a hundred technical papers in international journals and conferences, Professor Parashar has coauthored/edited three books, and has contributed to several others, in the area of parallel and distributed computing.