In spite of the clear need to present these concepts to a much broader technical audience, there is a perplexing dearth of training material and textbooks in the field, particularly at the introductory level. … it is indeed refreshing to see the publication of the book An Introduction to Parallel and Vector Scientific Computing, written by Ronald W. Shonkwiler and Lew Lefton, both of the Georgia institute of Technology. They have taken the bull by the horns and produced a book that appears to be entirely satisfactory as an introductory textbook for use in such a course.’ Scientific Programming
