Mirenkov N.N. Parallel computing technologies

Singapore, New Jersey, London, Hong Kong: JBW Printers and Binders Pte. Ltd., 1991. — 514 p.
We are currently entering ah era of developed parallelism. Parallelism provides the high performance needed in science and engineering, the responsiveness required in real-time control, the fault-tolerance necessary for high reliability systems, etc. These capabilities become available for use in an increasing number of applications but offer new challenges to the system designer and programmer.