Invited lectures

	Frank Baetke, HP/Convex, Richardson, USA Hewlett-Packard's High-End Computing Strategy and the Transition to IA-64 (MERCED)
	Georg Bolz, Lufthansa High Performance Computing for Decision Support in the Airline Industry: Application Domains, Business Benefits, Technology Trends
	Stuart McKaig, Tom Watson, Kirby Collins, HP/Convex, Richardson, USA Adapting HP-UX to CC-NUMA Architectures
	Isom Crawford, HP/Convex, Richardson, USA Optimizing Application Performance on HP Technical Servers
	Gary M. Gutt, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USA The 256-Processor X-Class Exemplar: A First Year's Experience
	Sassan Hazeghi, HP/Convex, Richardson, USA Compilers and Tools - Status and Future Developments
	Djordje Maric, Centro Svizzero di Calcolo Scientifico, Manno, Switzerland Highest sustained performance for user applications at CSCS-ETHZ
	Prof. B. Monien, Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing, Paderborn, Germany Load Balancing with Applications in Operations Research and Scientific Computing
	Juergen Schlanke, Hewlett-Packard Europe, Böblingen, Germany File Server Strategy and Solutions Top Ten Criteria for Chosing Technical Servers in Technical Mission Critical Environments
	Bruce Toal, worldwide marketing manager for HP's scientific/technical servers, HP/Convex, Richardson, USA Keynote Address: HP's High-Performance Server Business: A Management Update
	Jeff Venters, HP/Convex, Richardson, USA High Performance Networking for the HP-UX systems - Status and Futures
	Prof. Hans-Joachim Werner, Institute for Theoretical Chemistry, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany Parallel implementation of electron correlation methods
	Prof. Marianne Winslett, Dpt. of Computer Science, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA High-performance parallel I/O on clusters