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The 14 chapters presented in this book cover a wide variety of representativeworks ranging from hardware design to application development. Particularly, the topicsthat are addressed are programmable and reconfigurable devices and systems, dependabilityof GPUs (General Purpose Units), network topologies, cache coherence protocols, resourceallocation, scheduling algorithms, peertopeer networks, largescale network simulation, andparallel routines and algorithms. In this way, the articles included in this book constitutean excellent reference for engineers and researchers who have particular interests in each ofthese topics in parallel and distributed computing.