Parallel Algorithms for Irregularly Structured Problems: Second International Workshop, Irregular '95 Lyon, France, September 4-6, 1995 
Subtitle: Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)
Contributors: Afonso Ferreira (Editor); Jose Rolim (Editor)
Publisher: Springer
Published: December 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 409
ISBN-13: 9783540603214
Subjects: Mathematical theory of computation; Parallel Processing; Parallel programming (Computer science); Computers - Languages / Programming; Algorithms (Computer Programming); Science/Mathematics; Computers; Parallel programming (Computer; Computer Books: General; Parallel algorithms; Congresses; Computer Architecture - General; Computer Science; Programming - General
First sentence: There are two main differences between sequential and parallel computers: in the latter, there are potentially very large overheads in communication (or memory accesses) and in task management.