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Book Reviews : ADVANCED COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE: Parallelism, Scalability, and Programmability by Kai Hwang McGraw-Hill, New York, N.Y., 1993. 770 pages, Price: $56.95, ISBN: 0-07-031622-8

This book is a very useful reference for simulationists who work in many areas of simulation such as high performance computing, parallel and distributed computing, software engineering, telecommunication systems, computer networks, computer aided design, hardware engineering, hardware for simulation, electrical engineering, information systems, knowledge-based systems, simulators, VLSI and circuit simulation, verification and validation. This book consists of twelve chapters divided into four parts covering the theory, technology, architecture, and software of parallel and high performance computers. The author introduces the issues in the design and use of such computer systems at a time when advances in VLSI technology have provided us with processors that offer a higher performance than traditional vector supercomputers at a low cost-performance ratio. The book provides