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Dedication

This book is dedicated to all the code warriors, white hat hackers, midnight engineers , and countless volunteers who have tirelessly given their skill, talent, experience, and time to make the open -source movement a reality and the Linux revolution possible. Without their tremendous contributions, the software needed to explore cluster programming, MPP programming, SMP programming, and distributed programming would simply not be as widely accessible and available to everyone in the world as it now is.