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Parallel Programming: Techniques and Applications Using Networked Workstations and Parallel Computers (2nd Edition)
by Barry Wilkinson, Michael Allen
from Prentice Hall
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 
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Typical CS department book 
I find this book to be poorly written. The examples are insufficient and the content is only a cursory introduction to parallel programming. My recommendation is to reaearch alternative publications relating to Parallel Programming.
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Good book at senior or early grad school level 
The book serves as a good introduction to several advanced computing techniques. It isn't for beginners in computer science or networking, and it isn't worth the list price. Unfortunately, the topic isn't something you are likely to find in a career, so it isn't useful to general computer science students.
It is great as a learning book, in-depth enough that you could use it for on-the-job learning. It covers the things you need to know for real-world use. I would have given it 5 stars, except it... more info
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Wonderful book but don't pay full price
This is a really good introduction to Parallel Programming techniques, but its overpriced. Buy it used. This book is used as a textbook in many computer science departments (hence the inflated price) but I found that even with the minimal computer science education I've had (mostly from self-study) I learned a lot and did not find this book overly difficult to follow.
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Not for beginners 
This would be a great reference manual, but I am using this test in my parallel processing course and the pseudocode is confusing and the MPI functions are introduced with poor descriptions.
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