Download or read book Handbook of Parallel Computing and Statistics written by Erricos John Kontoghiorghes and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2005-12-21 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technological improvements continue to push back the frontier of processor speed in modern computers. Unfortunately, the computational intensity demanded by modern research problems grows even faster. Parallel computing has emerged as the most successful bridge to this computational gap, and many popular solutions have emerged based on its concepts