Editor's Note.

This article focuses on the quality of articles published in the periodical "IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems." (TDPS)Through a tremendous effort by editorial board, staff, and reviewers, the periodical is in its best state in recent years. Editor has observed a dramatic reduction in the average review time for papers, a very healthy increase in the number of paper submissions, an extremely high level of satisfaction among authors in surveys conducted. TPDS is also among the five titles in the Computer Society that have held or improved the subscriber retention rate past year. Editor has improved peer review process over the last few years and has cleared all of the backlog from before 2001. He is in the process of completing a small number of remaining papers submitted in 2002. Submission to publication time has been reduced by almost one third since 2000. Current goal is to further reduce the average processing time. This is an extremely challenging goal.