How to design a parallel computer

Summary form only given, as follows. Computer designers of the 1990s will be able to exploit many years of research into the design of parallel computers. The demands of embedded processing, general purpose computing and supercomputing in the 1990s are far beyond the capabilities of sequential computers. Component designers will use VLSI to produce supercomponents for processing, memory and interconnect, and computer designers will use these supercomponents to produce parallel computers of unprecedented capability. The emergence of general purpose parallel architectures will allow parallel computers to become pervasive, and will support the development of a parallel computing industry