Preface. Part 1: Trends and Emerging Systems. Performance and Scalability of Database Servers: An Introduction; A. Tiwary, et al. Evolution of the HPC Market; E. Strohmaier, et al. Scalable Shared-Memory Multiprocessing and the Silicon Graphics S2MP Architecture; D.E. Lenoski, J.P. Laudon. Exemplar S- and X-Class: 2nd Generation of High-Performance Systems with a Global Shared Memory Architecture; F.P.E. Baetke. Oracle Solutions for Database Management System in Parallel Processing Environment; E. Genovese. Part 2: Algorithms. PARJEN96: A Parallel Software Tool for Automatic Differentiation; L. Grandinetti, et al. VLSI Solvers for Some PDE Problems; M. Vajtersic. A Comparison Between Domain Decomposition and Fully Implicit Approaches for a Parallel 3D Upwind Flow Solver; E. Bucchignani, G. Iaccarino. Hyper-Systolic Processing on the Quadrics: Improving Inter-Processor Communication by Simulated Annealing; P. Palazzari, et al. Part 3: Software Technology. Resource Management Tools in Cluster Computing; W. Gentzsch. Explicit Management of Memory Hierarchy; J. Nieplocha, et al. Granularity Control in the Logflow Parallel Prolog System; P. Kacsuk. An Environment for Structured Parallel Programming; B. Bacci, et al. Extending Data-Parallel Languages for Irregularly Structured Applications. Parallelization of Sparse Matrix Algebra and Unstructured Domains Solvers; G. Bandera, et al. Automatic Coarse-Grained Parallelization Techniques; M. Cosnard, E. Jeannot. Part 4: Applications. High-Performance Computing for the Computer Aided Design of Financial Products; A. Consiglio, S.A. Zenios. Applying High Performance Computing in Electromagnetics; A. Marsh, D.I. Kaklamani. Aspects of Image Processing for Multimedia Applications; G.R. Joubert, O. Kao. Parallel 3D Finite Element Computation of Unsteady Flows Past a Sphere; V. Kalro, T. Tezduyar. Index.

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