Models for Parallel Computing : Review and Perspectives

As parallelism on different levels becomes ubiquitous in today's computers, it seems worthwhile to provide a review of the wealth of models for parallel comput ation that have evolved over the last decades. We refrain from a comprehensive survey and concentrate on models with some practical relevance, together with a perspective on models with potential future relevance. Besides presenting the models, we also refer to languages, implementations, and tools