If you are new to either message passing parallel programming or to the IBM Parallel Environment for AIX , you should find one or more sections of this book useful. To make the best use of this book, you should be familiar with:
This book is not intended to provide comprehensive coverage of the topics above, nor is it intended to tell you everything there is to know about the PE program product. If you need more information on any of these topics, the publications listed in Bibliography may be of some help.
On the other hand, if you're beyond the novice level in one or more of the topics covered in this book, you may want to skip over the associated sections. In this case, you can refer to Bibliography for publications that might cover these topics in more depth.