Abstract: It provides an overview of the parallel computing for 2-dimensional plasma simulations with particle clouds in cells methods under both shared-memory and distrbuted-memory parallel computing environments.The parallel algorithm and its implementation are desigened on the basis of the serial algorithm and the executing characteristics of the serial code.The practical parallel computations are performed under Challenge,DAWN 1000+, Power PC Cluster and XMZY. Many important conclusions are given and quite useful for the parallel computations of both types of particle simulation methods and other applicational codes.