This book is for students and researchers who are interested in scientific computation. The book has a dual purpose: first, it is a textbook for a course on parallel scientific computation. Second, the book is a source of example parallel algorithms

Bigtable是一个为管理大规模结构化数据而设计的分布式存储系统，可以扩展到PB级数据和上千台服务器。很多google的项目使用Bigtable存储数据，这些应用对Bigtable提出了不同的挑战，比如数据规模的要求、延迟的要求。Bigtable能满足这些多变的要求，为这些产品成功地提供了灵活、高性能的存储解决方案。(Bigtable is a distributed storage system designed to manage large-scale structured data,