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Preliminaries
1. State of the Art Distributed Parallel Computational Techniques in Industrial Finite Element Analysis, L. Komzsik	1
2. DEISA: A Distributed European HPC Ecosystem for Engineers and Scientists, W. Gentzsch and H. Lederer	21
3. The Virtual Prairie Project, M. Garbey, M. Smaoui, W. Rinsurongkawong and C. Mony	49
4. Network Services for High Performance Distributed Computing and Data Management, W.E. Johnston, C. Guok, J. Metzger and B. Tierne	83
5. Performance Models of Zoned Disk Arrays, W.J. Knottenbelt, A.S. Lebrecht and N.J. Dingle	105
6. Advanced Object-Oriented Paradigms for Parallel Computational Mechanics, D. Eyheramendy, R. Saad and F. Oudin-Dardun	135
7. The Scalable GPGPU-based Hybrid Computing System and its Applications, B.N. Chetverushkin	159
8. High Performance Computer Simulation for Engineering: A Review, M.M. Resch	177
9. Scalable Hybrid Algorithms for Large-Scale Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics Applications, S. Aliabadi, E. Yilmaz, M. Akbar, S. Palle, B. Soni and R. Patel	187
10. Modeling of Multiphase and Multifield Flow Problems, E. Monaco, T. Kersten and G. Brenner	221
11. High Performance Strategies for Large Scale Complex Structural Analysis, J.Y. Cognard and P. Verpeaux	243
12. Massive Parallelization for Industrial CFD Based Analysis and Design, S. Peigin and B. Epstein	269
13. Parallel Approximate Inverse Preconditioning using the Finite Difference Method: The General Purpose Graphics Processing Unit Approach, G.A. Gravvanis, C.K. Filelis-Papadopoulos and K.M. Giannoutakis	291
14. Grid Technology for Collaborative Computing in Engineering, H.M. Chen and Y.C. Lin	321
15. Ontology for Contract Negotiations in an Agent-based Grid Resource Management System, M. Drozdowicz, K. Wasielewska, M. Ganzha, M. Paprzycki, N. Attaoui, I. Lirkov, R. Olejnik, D. Petcu and C. Badica	335
16. Negotiations in an Agent-based Grid Resource Brokering System, K. Wasielewska, M. Ganzha, M. Paprzycki, M. Drozdowicz, D. Petcu, C. Badica, N. Attaoui, I. Lirkov and R. Olejnik	355
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