Editorial

The significant amount of work required to move large commercial application programs to parallel architectures in a portable way has hindered the take-up of parallel technology in industry, thereby preventing this technology from being fully used to increase competitiveness. Therefore, the European Commission supported industry in Europe through the EUROPORT project, which was part of the ESPRIT initiative. EUROPORT helped by partially funding the porting of 38 industrially relevant codes to parallel computers. The aims of EUROPORT were threefold: to demon-