This collection of lectures presented at the First International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Grid Computing for Engineering?held at the University of Pécs in Hungary?addresses both pure computer-science aspects and their applications in computational mechanics and science. This unique record covers a wide range of theories related to high-performance computing, and topics include parallel environments, next-generation processors, architectures and methods for HPC, grids and cloud portals, domain decomposition methods, solver technology, and preconditioned iterative methods and hybrid time domain methods.
B. H. V. Topping is an emeritus professor of computational mechanics at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and an honorary professor at the Pollack Mihaly Faculty of Engineering at the University of Pécs in Hungary. P. Iványi is head of the department of system and software engineering at the Pollack Mihaly Faculty of Engineering at the University of Pécs in Hungary.