These papers were presented at the workshop on High Performance Computing and Gigabit Wide Area Networks held in September 1998 in Essen, Germany. The aim of the workshop was to analyse the interplay between computer network technology, communication software and the performance of mathematical algorithms used for large scale computations in wide area high speed computer networks. Only through interdisciplinary research with the co-operation of electrical engineers, mathematicians and computer scientists will it be possible to determine the most efficient combinations of parallel algorithms, protocols and network hardware. This workshop brought together scientists working in computer networks, network protocols and numerical and linear algebra and new insights were gained that have previously been unattainable. This volume contains 22 refereed research articles that reflect the exciting new developments in this field.

Interdisciplinary research has resulted in new insights into this area of research Contributions come from internationally renowned experts in this field and all papers are refereed A unique collection of papers

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Introduction: Distributed high performance computing and gigabit wide area networks.- Advanced computing and communications research under NSF support.- SRP: a scalable resource reservation protocol for the internet.- Differentiated internet services.- A portable subroutine library for solving linear control problems on distributed memory computers.- ParaStation user level communication.- TOP-C: Task-oriented parallel C for distributed and shared memory.- Metacomputing in the gigabit testbed west.- High performance metacomputing in a transatlantic wide area application testbed.- MILESS A learning and teaching server for multi-media documents.- Rural educational system network (RESNET): Design and deployment.- Some performance studies in exact linear algebra.- Performance analysis of wavefront algorithms on very-large scale distributed systems.- The DFN gigabitwissenschaftsnetz G-WiN.- On network resource management for end-to-end QoS.- A prototype of a combined digital and retrodigitized searchable mathematical journal.- Gigabit networking in norway infrastructure, applications and projects.- Low speed ATM over ADSL and the need for high speed networks.- The NRW metacomputing initiative.- Design and evaluation of parastation2.- Broadcast communication in ATM computer networks and mathematical algorithm development.- Highly available distributed storage systems.