Special Issue on Network and Parallel Computing

It is our pleasure to bring you this special issue of the International Journal of Parallel Programming on network and parallel computing. Prior to the publication of this special issue, these journal articles were presented at the 12th IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing (NPC’2015) held from September 17 to September 19, 2015 in New York, USA. NPC continues to be a top-tier venue for researchers to present their work in the areas of distributed and parallel computing. NPC 2015 attracted submissions in the areas of parallel and multicore systems and applications, and also in network scalability and security. We had a strong selection committee, and averaged four reviews per paper. The committee was very selective in choosing the papers, and only 13 journal articles were accepted for presentation at the conference. These 13 top-quality journal articles are included in this special issue, covering a variety of topics ranging from parallel computing applications, including networks, virtualization and scalability to multicore and accelerator architectures. We have placed the papers into four categories.