Special Section on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networking

摘要

Recent rapid advance of multi-core and many-core architectures has made parallel computers commonly used basis of computation. A smart phone with a dual-core processor activates the search engine working on large cloud servers through the wireless broadband network. Parallel computing, distributed computing and networking are closely-related areas of computing and their importance is ever-increasing in these decades. The objective of this special section is to publish the recent progresses in the interdisciplinary areas. We also expected that some authors would submit the extended versions of their papers presented in the second International Conference on Networking and Computing (ICNC2010), held in Osaka during November 30 to December 2, 2011, in addition to bland-new contributions from other IEICE members.