The International Journal of Parallel Programming journal gratefully acknowledges the editorial work of the following scholars on this special section on “Concurrent Systems: Status and Perspectives”:

Erik Maehle, University of Luebeck, Germany

Sally McKee, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

The 3 papers in this section include:

  • Exploiting GPUs with the Super Instruction Architecture by Nakul Jindal, Victor Lotrich, Erik Deumens, Beverly A. Sanders

  • Concurrency Paradigms: Competitive, Coordinated, and Collaborative: Which Control Mechanisms are Appropriate? By W. Morven Gentleman

  • Memory Partitioning in the Limit by Emre Kültürsay, Kemal Ebcioğlu, Gürhan Küçük, Mahmut T. Kandemir