Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface : 7th European PVM MPI Users’ Group Meeting Balatonfüred Hungary September 10–13 2000 Proceedings This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th European PVM MPI Users Group Meeting held in Balatonfüred Hungary in September 2000. The 35 revised papers and seven posters presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The book offers topical sections on evaluation and performance algorithms extensions and improvements implementation heterogenous distributed systems tools and applications in science and engineering. All current aspects of the parallel virtual machine approach and the message passing interface paradigm are addressed