The arts and entertainment now demand a great deal of time and money from audiences worldwide. They also embroil us in fraught debates about cultural identities and cultural homogenization. A Bollywood song or a Latin telenovela now challenge productions from iconic institutions such as Hollywood or[...]

This book outlines a set of issues that are critical to all of parallel architecture--communication latency, communication bandwidth, and coordination of cooperative work (across modern designs). It describes the set of techniques available in hardware and in software to address each issues and expl[...]