Evaluation and Performance -- Performance Issues of Distributed MPI Applications in a German Gigabit Testbed -- Reproducible Measurements of MPI Performance Characteristics -- Performance Evaluation of MPI/MBCF with the NAS Parallel Benchmarks -- Performance and Predictability of MPI and BSP Programs on the CRAY T3E -- Automatic Profiling of MPI Applications with Hardware Performance Counters -- Monitor Overhead Measurement with SKaMPI -- A Standard Interface for Debugger Access to Message Queue Information in MPI -- Towards Portable Runtime Support for Irregular and Out-of-Core Computations -- Enhancing the Functionality of Performance Measurement Tools for Message Passing Environments -- Performance Modeling Based on PVM -- Efficient Replay of PVM Programs -- Relating the Execution Behaviour with the Structure of the Application -- Extensions and Improvements -- Extending PVM with consistent cut capabilities: Application Aspects and Implementation Strategies -- Flattening on the Fly: efficient handling of MPI derived datatypes -- PVM Emulation in the Harness Metacomputing System: A Plug-In Based Approach -- Implementing MPI-2 Extended Collective Operations -- Modeling MPI Collective Communications on the AP3000 Multicomputer -- MPL: Efficient Record/Replay of nondeterministic features of message passing libraries -- Comparison of PVM and MPI on SGI multiprocessors in a High Bandwidth Multimedia Application -- On Line Visualisation or Combining the Standard ORNL PVM with a Vendor PVM Implementation -- Native versus Java Message Passing -- JPT: A Java Parallelization Tool -- Facilitating Parallel Programming in PVM Using Condensed Graphs -- Nested Bulk Synchronous Parallel Computing -- Implementation Issues -- An MPI Implementation on the Top of the Virtual Interface Architecture -- MiMPI: A Multithread-Safe Implementation of MPI -- Building MPI for Multi-Programming Systems Using Implicit Information -- The design for a high performance MPI implementation on the Myrinet network -- Implementing MPI's One-Sided Communications for WMPI -- Tools -- A Parallel Genetic Programming Tool Based on PVM -- Net-Console: A Web-Based Development Environment for MPI Programs -- VisualMPI - A Knowledge-Based System for Writing Efficient MPI Applications -- Algorithms -- Solving Generalized Boundary Value Problems with Distributed Computing and Recursive Programming -- Hyper-Rectangle Distribution Algorithm for Parallel Multidimensional Numerical Integration -- Parallel Monte Carlo Algorithms for Sparse SLAE Using MPI -- A Method for Model Parameter Identification Using Parallel Genetic Algorithms -- Large-scale FE modelling in geomechanics: a case study in parallelization -- A Parallel Robust Multigrid Algorithm Based on Semi-coarsening -- Applications in Science and Engineering -- PLIERS: A Parallel Information Retrieval System Using MPI -- Parallel DSIR Text Retrieval System -- PVM Implementation of Heterogeneous ScaLAPACK Dense Linear Solvers -- Using PMD to Parallel-Solve Large-Scale Navier-Stokes Equations. Performance Analysis on SGI/CRAY-T3E Machine -- Implementation Issues of Computational Fluid Dynamics Algorithms on Parallel Computers -- A Scalable Parallel Gauss-Seidel and Jacobi Solver for Animal Genetics -- Parallel Approaches to a Numerically-Intensive Application Using PVM -- Solving the Inverse Toeplitz Eigenproblem Using ScaLAPACK and MPI -- A Parallel Implementation of the Eigenproblem for Large, Symmetric and Sparse Matrices -- Parallel Computation of the SVD of a Matrix Product -- Porting generalized eigenvalue software on distributed memory machines using systolic model principles -- Heading for an Asynchronous Parallel Ocean Model -- Distributed Collision Handling for Particle-Based Simulation -- Parallel watershed algorithm on images from cranial CT-scans using PVM and MPI on a distributed memory system -- MPIPOV: A Parallel Implementation of POV-Ray Based on MPI -- Minimum Communication Cost Fractal Image Compression on PVM -- Cluster Computing Using MPI and Windows NT to Solve the Processing of Remotely Sensed Imagery -- Ground Water Flow Modelling in PVM -- Networking -- Virtual BUS: A Simple Implementation of an Effortless Networking System Based on PVM -- Collective Communication on Dedicated Clusters of Workstations -- Experiences Deploying a Distributed Parallel Processing Environment over a Broadband Multiservice Network -- Asynchronous Communications in MPI - the BIP/Myrinet Approach -- Parallel Computing on PC Clusters - An Alternative to Supercomputers for Industrial Applications -- Benchmarking the PVM Group Communication Efficiency -- Heterogeneous Distributed Systems -- Dynamic Assignment with Process Migration in Distributed Environments -- Parallelizing of Sequential Annotated Programs in PVM Environment -- di_pSystem: A Parallel Programming System for Distributed Memory Architectures -- Parallel NLP Strategies Using PVM on Heterogeneous Distributed Environments -- Using PVM for Distributed Logic Minimization in a Network of Computers.