Section 1 Parallel computing: Towards best achievable floating point performance for linear algebra computations on COTS Beowulf clusters C2AS: An agent-based distributed and parallel processing virtual machine Application of JavaSpaces to improve iterative reconstruction of SPECT data A parallel algorithm with time dependent mesh refinement for wave propagation problems Evaluation and benchmark of high-performance computer platforms for automotive crashworthiness simulation. Section 2 Parallel finite and boundary elements: Viscoelastic beam damping and piezoelectric control of deformations, probabilistic failures and survival times - analytical and massively parallel computational simulations Time-domain Laplace transform boundary element methods for diffusion problems Parallel finite element algorithms for the analysis of multiscale plasticity problems On parallel computing for the general boundary element method High performance computing for analysis and postprocessing of earthing systems in layered soils. Section 3 Applications in fluid flow: Parallel vorticity formulation for calculating lift and drag on bluff bodies in a free stream Parallel lattice fluid simulations for transport phenomena in porous media Large-scale parallel simulation of blood flow coupled with a diseased blood vessel Computation of the starting flow in a shock tunnel 2D nozzle Parallelization in two-dimensional direct numerical simulation Parallelization of a multi-blocked, multi-threaded general CFD code for heat transfer analysis. Section 4 Further applications in computational science: Data classification using KNN-fuzzy method optimized by a genetic algorithm Solving a rational Eigenvalue problem in fluid-structure interaction. Section 5 Performance and benchmarking: The VAMPIR and PARAVER performance analysis tools applied to a wet chemical etching parallel algorithm Computer-aided diagnostics, data collection, data warehousing and mining system for handguns A neural network implementation for data assimilation using MPI Information systems maintenance Issues of web-enabled high performance databases. Section 6 Distributed computer systems and networking: High performance multithreaded message passing on a myrinet cluster pCor: a prototype for resource oriented computing.