Acknowledgments for the Second Edition
We thank first the authors of the chapters contributed to this book:Peter H. Beckman, Argonne National LaboratoryRalph Butler, Middle Tennessee State UniversityNarayan Desai, Argonne National LaboratoryJack Dongarra, University of TennesseeVictor Eijkhout, University of TennesseeRemy Evard, Argonne National LaboratoryAl Geist, Oak Ridge National LaboratoryDavid B. Jackson, University of UtahJames Patton Jones, Altair EngineeringJim Kohl, Oak Ridge National LaboratoryDavid Lifka, Cornell Theory CenterWalt Ligon, Clemson UniversityMiron Livny, University of WisconsinKaren Miller, University of WisconsinJohn-Paul Navarro, Argonne National LaboratoryBill Nitzberg, Altair EngineeringDaniel Nurmi, University of California, Santa BarbaraPhilip Papadopoulos, University of California, San DiegoErik Paulson, University of WisconsinRob Ross, Argonne National LaboratoryDan Stanzione, Jr., Clemson UniversityBrian Toonen, Argonne National LaboratoryTodd Tannenbaum, University of WisconsinDerek Wright, University of WisconsinMany other people helped in various ways to put this book together. Thanks are due to Philip Carns, Anthony Chan, Andreas Dilger, Michele Evard, Tramm Hudson, Rob Latham, Andrew Lusk, Richard Lusk, Neill Miller, Bill Nickless, Craig Stacey, Rick Stevens, and Edward Thornton.Don Becker, Tom Quinn, and the people of Scyld Computing Corporation provided particular help with Chapter 18 on the Scyld approach to Beowulf.Special thanks go to Karen Toonen for her tremendous help in making the network tuning chapter more understandable. Gail Pieper, technical writer in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne, once again improved every chapter's style and readability.William GroppEwing LuskThomas Sterling