| 1 | -- | 0 | Helen M. Wood. Foreword to the First Issue of the Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems |
| 2 | -- | 5 | Tse-Yun Feng. Editor s Notice |
| 6 | -- | 16 | Thomas E. Anderson. The Performance of Spin Lock Alternatives for Shared-Money Multiprocessors |
| 17 | -- | 25 | P. M. Melliar-Smith, Louise E. Moser, Vivek Agrawala. Broadcast Protocols for Distributed Systems |
| 26 | -- | 34 | Zhiyuan Li, Pen-Chung Yew, Chuan-Qi Zhu. An Efficient Data Dependence Analysis for Parallelizing Compilers |
| 35 | -- | 47 | Laurie J. Hendren, Alexandru Nicolau. Parallelizing Programs with Recursive Data Structures |
| 48 | -- | 63 | Oscar H. Ibarra, Stephen M. Sohn. On Mapping Systolic Algorithms onto the Hypercube |
| 64 | -- | 76 | PeiZong Lee, Zvi M. Kedem. Mapping Nested Loop Algorithms into Multidimensional Systolic Arrays |
| 77 | -- | 82 | Sanjay Ranka, Sartaj Sahni. Odd Even Shifts in SIMD Hypercubes |
| 83 | -- | 90 | Kwan Woo Ryu, Joseph JáJá. Efficient Algorithms for List Ranking and for Solving Graph Problems on the Hypercube |
| 91 | -- | 106 | Prithviraj Banerjee, Mark Howard Jones, Jeff S. Sargent. Parallel Simulated Annealing Algorithms for Cell Placement on Hypercube Multiprocessors |
| 107 | -- | 119 | Andrew P. Black, Yeshayahu Artsy. Implementing Location Independent Invocation |
| 120 | -- | 126 | Menkae Jeng, Howard Jay Siegel. A Distributed Management Scheme for Partitionable Parallel Computers |