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Pt. 1. Preliminaries -- 1. The status and future of massively parallel processing -- 2. Can parallel machines be used efficiently? -- 3. An introduction to hardware architectures -- Pt. 2. Software issues -- 4. Shared memory parallel language constructs -- 5. Message passing -- 6. SIMD and Array-based languages -- 7. Linda -- 8. The development environment for parallel software -- 9. Operating sytem issues -- Pt. 3. Management issues -- 10. Benchmarking parallel application -- 11. Porting and developing parallel applications -- 12. Matching applications to architectures -- App. A. The sample problem -- App. B SGI Challenge -- App. C. nCube -- App. D. Express -- App. E. Intel Paragon -- App. F. MasPar MP-1 -- App. G. C* on the connection machine -- App. H Linda -- App. I. Two recent machines.