The Journal of Supercomputing Published in association with the Supercomputing Research Center Edited by Richard Draper Supercomputing Research Center J. Riganati Supercomputing Research Center, Bowie, MD, USA AIMS AND SCOPE The Journal of Supercomputing is an archival technical journal publishing theoretical, practical, tutorial and survey papers on all aspects of supercomputing. The papers published generally fall into areas such as technology, architecture and systems, algorithms, languages and programs, performance measures and methods, and applications. The tutorial and survey papers are intended for workers and students in the fields associated with and employing advanced computer systems. Letters to the Editor are also published, especially in areas relating to policy, succinct statements of paradoxes, intuitively puzzling results, partial results and real needs. 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