Distributed and Parallel Computing Author:Hesham El-Rewini, Ted G. Lewis, T. G. Lewis This is a most up-to-date, comprehensive guide to the rapidly changing field of distributed and parallel systems. The book begins with an introductory survey of distributed and parallel computing: its rationale and evolution. It compares and contrasts a wide variety of approaches to parallelism, from distributed computer networks, to parallelism... more » within processors to massively parallel systems. .« less