High-performance message-based supercomputers have only recently emerged from theresearch laboratory. The commercial manufacturing of such products as the Intel iPSC, the Ameteks/14, the NCUBE/ten, and the FPS T Series - all based on multicomputer network technology - hassparked lively interest in high-performance computation, and particularly in the message-passingparadigm for parallel computation.This book makes readily available information on...