Introduction.

PART I. EVOLUTION OF PARALLEL COMPUTING.

Serial Scalar Processor.

Vector and Superscalar Processors.

Shared Memory Multiprocessors.

Distributed Memory Multiprocessors.

Networks of Computers: Architecture and Programming Challenges.

PART II. PARALLEL PROGRAMMING FOR NETWORKS OF COMPUTERS WITH MPC AND HMPI.

Introduction to mpC.

Advanced Heterogeneous Parallel Programming in mpC.

Toward a Message-Passing Library for Heterogeneous Networks of Computers.

PART III. APPLICATIONS OF HETEROGENEOUS PARALLEL COMPUTING.

Scientific Applications.

Business and Software Engineering Applications.

Appendix A: The mpC N-Body Application. 

Appendix B: The Block Cyclic Matrix Multiplication Routine for Heterogeneneous Platforms.

Appendix C: The Parallel Adaptive Quadrature Routine.

Appendix D: The mpC User's Guide.

Bibliography.

Index.