From mining genomes to the World Wide Web, from modeling financial markets to global weather patterns, parallel computing enables computations that would otherwise be impractical if not impossible with sequential approaches alone. This book covers the fundamentals of parallel computing. "L. Ridgway Scott, Terry Clark, and Babak Bagheri have prepared a thorough treatment of the foundational and advanced principles of parallel computing. . . . [T]his book provides an excellent background for understanding grids and parallel algorithms in general."