We thank first the authors of the chapters contributed to this book:
Peter H. Beckman, Argonne National Laboratory
Ralph Butler, Middle Tennessee State University
Narayan Desai, Argonne National Laboratory
Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee
Victor Eijkhout, University of Tennessee
Remy Evard, Argonne National Laboratory
Al Geist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
David B. Jackson, University of Utah
James Patton Jones, Altair Engineering
Jim Kohl, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
David Lifka, Cornell Theory Center
Walt Ligon, Clemson University
Miron Livny, University of Wisconsin
Karen Miller, University of Wisconsin
John-Paul Navarro, Argonne National Laboratory
Bill Nitzberg, Altair Engineering
Daniel Nurmi, University of California, Santa Barbara
Philip Papadopoulos, University of California, San Diego
Erik Paulson, University of Wisconsin
Rob Ross, Argonne National Laboratory
Dan Stanzione, Jr., Clemson University
Brian Toonen, Argonne National Laboratory
Todd Tannenbaum, University of Wisconsin
Derek Wright, University of Wisconsin
Many 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 Gropp
Ewing Lusk
Thomas Sterling