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Preliminaries
1	VISUALISATION, PREPROCESSING AND MESH GENERATION
1.1	Parallel Visualisation of Computational Engineering Data J.W. Jones and N.P. Weatherill	1
1.2	Parallel Mesh Generation L. Laemmer and M. Burghardt	11
1.3	Using PadFEM for Parallel Mesh Refinement F. Neugebauer and J. Hungershofer	19
1.4	Three Dimensional Finite Element Analysis of Aluminum Extrusion B.J.E. van Rens, W.A.M. Brekelmans and F.P.T. Baaijens	25
2	NUMA ARCHITECTURES
2.1	Data Access Collection and Data Partitioning for NUMA Architectures C.R. Calidonna and M. Mango Furnari	33
3	DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION
3.1	A Method of Finite Element Tearing and Interconnecting for the Helmholtz Problem A. de La Bourdonnaye, C. Farhat, A. Macedo, F. Magoules and F.-X. Roux	41
3.2	Comparison of Multi-Level Approaches in Domain Decomposition for Structural Analysis P. Ladeveze and D. Dureisseix	55
3.3	Direct Domain Decomposition Method on a Distributed Memory Architecture J.F. Lassignardie, Y. Escaig and G. Touzot	65
4	PARALLEL P VERSION FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS
4.1	A Parallel p-Version Finite Element Approach for Structural Engineering M. Ruecker, M. Krafczyk and E. Rank	73
4.2	Computationally Efficient Methods for Parallel Adaptive Finite Element Analysis M. Papadrakakis and D.C. Harbis	79
5	NON-LINEAR ANALYSIS
5.1	Domain Decomposition Methods for the Solution of Non-Linear Problems in Solid Mechanics S. Meynen	87
5.2	Fully Parallel Nonlinear Finite Element Computations using the Pre-Conditioned Lanczos Method for Solving Linear Equations Th. Rottner, K. Schweizerhof, I. Lenhardt and G. Alefeld	95
6	SOLUTION OF ENGINEERING PROBLEMS USING HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING
6.1	Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Structures using a Cluster of PCs M.L. Romero and J.I. Aliaga	103
6.2	Parallel Parameter Estimation for Ground-Water Flow Models L. Laemmer and M. Burghardt	109
6.3	Parallel Algorithms for FE-BE Coupling R. Perera and E. Alarcon	117
6.4	An Open Software Framework for Multiphysics Applications in Computational Mechanics on Parallel and Distributed Computers P. Chow, C. Bailey, K. McManus, M. Cross and C. Addison	127
6.5	Multi-Physics Modelling for Interconnection Technology C. Bailey, D. Wheeler and M. Cross	135
6.6	An Equivalence Method to Compute Mechanical Properties of Repetitive Structures M. de Benedetti, R. Baldassarri and C. Scarponi	141
7	DYNAMIC LOAD BALANCING
7.1	A Comparison of Some Dynamic Load Balancing Algorithms for a Parallel Adaptive Flow Solver N. Touheed, P. Selwood, P.K. Jimack and M. Berzins	153
7.2	Parallel Dynamic Mesh Re-Partitioning in FEM Codes B. Maerten, A. Basermann, J. Fingberg, G. Lonsdale and D. Roose	163
8	OBJECT ORIENTED TECHNIQUES FOR PARALLEL PROCESSING
8.1	Performances of Static and Dynamic Solvers on a Sub-Domains Object Oriented Finite Element Architecture P. de Vincenzo, I. Klapka and M. Geradin	169
8.2	A Parallel Finite Element Package for Non-Linear Problems: Application to Damage Mechanics F.J. Lingen	181
9	OPTIMIZATION AND DESIGN
9.1	Shape Design and Shape Optimization by Genetic Algorithms J. Lampinen and J. Alander	187
9.2	Parallel Design of Cable-Membrane Structures: The Development of Preprocessing Tools P. Ivanyi, B.H.V. Topping and J. Muylle	197

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