ABSTRACT
Parallel processing provides an opportunity to improve computational efficiency by orders of magnitude. By combining 100 microprocessors each with performance of 100 MIPS (million instructions per second), it is possible to gain supercomputer performance at a fraction of the cost of a supercomputer. The research challenge is to reformulate the problem, develop parallel algorithms, and devise new computational stratagems in order to fully utilize the capabilities of parallel machines (Adeli & Vishnubhotla [1987]).
