1. Introduction
   1. Parallel Computing
   2. Performance Measures
2. Parallel IR
   1. Introduction
   2. MIMD Architectures
      1. Inverted Files
      2. Suffix Arrays
      3. Signature Files
   3. SIMD Architectures
      1. Signature Files
      2. Inverted Files
   4. Distributed IR
      1. Introduction
      2. Collection Partitioning
      3. Source Selection
      4. Query Processing
      5. Web Issues
   5. Trends and Research Issues
   6. Bibliographic Discussion

By E. Brown