Erratum to: Int J Parallel Prog DOI 10.1007/s10766-013-0251-z

The publisher regrets an error in the captions of the Tables 4 and 5. The Correct Table captions are as follows:

Table 4 Simulation speeds and speedups gathered utilizing 2.5-dimensional blocking and the “Quadrant-Load” halo region loading technique.

Table 5 Simulation speeds and speedups gathered utilizing 2.5-dimensional blocking and the “Single-Load” halo region loading technique.