This volume presents the contributions to the international workshop entitled "Lattice Gauge Theory - a Challenge in Large Scale Computing" that was held in Wuppertal from November 4 to 7, 1985. This meeting was the third in a series of European workshops in this rapidly developing field. The meeting intended to bring together both active university research ers in this field and scientists from industry and research centers who pursue large scale computing projects on problems within lattice gauge theory. These problems are extremely demanding from the point of view of both machine hardware and algorithms, for the verification of the continuum fields theories like Quantum Chromodynamics in four-dimensional Euclidean space-time is quite cumbersome due to the tremendously large number of de grees of freedom. Yet the motivation of theoretical physicists to exploit computers as tools for the simulation of complex systems such as gauge field theories has grown considerably during the past years. In fact, quite a few prominent colleagues of ours have even gone into machine building, both in industry and research institutions: more parallelism, and more de dicated computer architecture are their design goals to help them boost the Megaflop rate in their simulation processes. The workshop contained several interesting seminars with status reports on such supercomputer projects like the Italian APE (by E. Marinari), the IBM project GF-11 (by D. Weingarten), and the Danish projects MOSES and PALLAS (by H. Bohr).

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QCD at Finite Temperature and Baryon Number Density (Review).- Deconfining Phase Transition and the Continuum Limit of Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics (Abstract).- Critical Behaviour in Baryonic Matter.- Monte Carlo Renormalization Group: A Review.- Langevin Simulations of QCD, Including Fermions.- The Look-Ahead Fermion Algorithm.- Dynamical Fermions Using Lanczos.- QCD with Wilson Fermions on Intermediate Size Lattices.- The Potential Between Static Quarks in SU(2) Lattice Gauge Theory with Dynamical Fermions.- The SU(2) Chiral Model in an External Field: A Complex Stochastic Process on a Non-Abelian Group.- The t-Expansion and Lattice QCD.- Lattice Higgs Models (Review).- Relaxation and Correlations in Time in a Finite Volume.- Topology in Lattice Gauge Theory (Abstract).- Large N QCD: The Eguchi Kawai Approach.- Hadron Mass Calculation on a 243 x 48 Lattice.- Calculation of Weak Matrix Elements: Some Technical Aspects.- The Chiral Limit in Lattice QCD.- QCD Sum Rules and Spontaneous Breakdown of Chiral Symmetry.- Potentials.- Quenched Hadron Masses Using a 164 Lattice.- A Cornucopia of Lattices.- The H Particle on the Lattice.- A New Method for Inverting Fermionic Matrix.- (Uses of) An Order Parameter for Lattice Gauge Theories with Matter Fields.- The GF 11 Supercomputer (Abstract).- Parallel Computing in Lattice Theory.- The APE Computer and Lattice Gauge Theories.- CRAY and QCD.- Memory and Learning in a Class of Neural Network Models.- Participants.