Programming Models and Support Tools -- Flexible Message Passing Interface for A Heterogenous Computing Environment -- GOP: A Graph-Oriented Programming Model for Parallel and Distributed Systems -- Programming Cellular Automata-Like Systems in a Multimedia Parallel Environment -- Algorithms -- Vector-Parallel Algorithms for 1-Dimensional Fast Fourier Transform -- Towards Solving NP-Complete Problems by Using a Molecular Supercomputer Model -- A Design Concept of Generalized Group-Oriented Cryptosystem without Trusted Parties -- Scheduling Parallel Tasks onto Numa Multiprocessors with Inter-Processor Communication Overhead -- Energy Aware Scheduling for Heterogeneous Real-Time Embedded Systems Using Genetics Algorithms -- Dynamic Clustering of Tasks and DCS for Multiple Task Allocation -- Networking, Architectures, and Distributed Systems -- An Ad Hoc On-Demand Routing Protocol with Alternate Routes -- Design of a Viable Fault-Tolerant Routing Strategy for Optical-Based Grids -- Information Hiding System Stegowavek for Improving Capacity -- Toward a Comprehensive Software Based Dsm System -- Reliability of a Distributed Search Engine for Fresh Information Retrieval in Large-Scale Intranet -- Independent Global Snapshots in Large Distributed Systems -- Applications -- Interactive Data Mining based on PC Cluster Environment -- Long-Term Mail Address Transition in the Mobile Internet Under Unsolicited Bulk Email -- Algorithms for the Visualization of Functionally Defined Objects on Distributed Systems -- Automated Digital Image Registration and its Parallel Implementation -- A Multiagent Infrastructure for Data-Intensive Grid Applications -- Modeling Analysis of Key Message Approach on Clusters.Parallel and distributed computing is one of the foremost technologies for shaping future research and development activities in academia and industry. Hyperthreading in Intel processors, hypertransport links in next generation AMD processors, multicore silicon in today’s high-end microprocessors, emerging cluster and grid computing, has moved parallel/distributed computing into the mainstream of computing. New Horizons of Parallel and Distributed Computing is a collection of self-contained chapters written by pioneers and researchers to provide solutions for newly emerging problems in this field. This volume will not only provide novel ideas, work in progress and state-of-the-art techniques in the field, but also stimulate future research activities in the area of parallel and distributed computing with applications. New Horizons of Parallel and Distributed Computing is intended for researchers and graduate students in computer science and electrical engineering, as well as researchers and developers in industry. This book can be used as a textbook and a reference for use by students, researchers, and developers.