Table of Contents

On the Necessity of Supporting Research.- Parallel Computer Architectures for Numerical Simulation.- Design Optimization of High Performance Satellites.- Numerical Simulations of Dynamical Ginzburg-Landau Vortices in Superconductivity.- High Performance Scientific Computing and its Application in Solving Engineering Problems.- Computational Fluid Dynamics with FIRE on Massive Parallel Computers.- Distributed Numerical Simulation on Workstation Networks.- European Developments in High Performance Computing — A Comparison with Developments in Other OECD Countries.- High-Performance Computing in Fluid Mechanics.- Process Simulation for the Semiconductor Industry.- Numerical Simulation of Crystal Growth Processes.- Quantum Monte Carlo Simulations and Weak-Coupling Approximations for the Three-Band Hubbard Model.- Dynamic Systems Visualization Applied to Flight Mechanics Problems.- Efficient Methods and Parallel Computing in Numerical Fluid Mechanics.