This is the first book to explain the language Unified Parallel Cand its use. Authors El-Ghazawi, Carlson, and Sterling are amongthe developers of UPC, with close links with the industrial membersof the UPC consortium. Their text covers background material onparallel architectures and algorithms, and includes UPC programmingcase studies. This book represents an invaluable resource for thegrowing number of UPC users and applications developers. Moreinformation about UPC can be found at: http://upc.gwu.edu/
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