By Stephen Wilson (auth.), Stephen Wilson (eds.)

Recent years have obvious the proliferation of latest computing device designs that hire parallel processing in a single shape or one other so as to in achieving greatest functionality. even supposing the assumption of bettering the functionality of computing machines via engaging in elements of the computation simultaneously isn't new (indeed, the idea that used to be identified to Babbage ), such machines have, till particularly lately, been constrained to a couple expert study laboratories. these days, parallel desktops are commercially to be had and they're discovering a variety of purposes in chemical calculations. the aim of this quantity is to study the effect that the appearance of concurrent computation is already having, and is probably going to have sooner or later, on chemical calculations. even if the potential for concurrent computation remains to be faraway from its complete recognition, it truly is already transparent that it could grow to be moment in significance merely to the advent of the digital electronic machine itself.