Parallel Processing with Communication Book

	Preface
1	The Parallel Nature of Systems	1
1.1	Co-operation	1
1.2	Communication	6
1.3	Competition	10
2	The Nature of Parallel Systems	15
2.1	Abstraction	15
2.2	Performance	16
2.3	Communication	19
2.4	Behaviour	23
3	Programming Parallel Systems	27
3.1	Threads of control	27
3.2	Communication	30
3.3	Programming metaphor	34
4	Interconnection Networks	41
4.1	Static requirements	41
4.2	Requirements for scalability	44
4.3	Specification	50
4.4	Configuration	56
5	Communication and Scalability	63
5.1	Communication infrastructure	63
5.2	Granularity and scalability	77
6	Deadlock Avoidance	89
6.1	Abstraction of system, behaviour, and program	89
6.2	Deadlock	95
6.3	Deadlock avoidance by design	99
	Bibliography	111
	Index	115