Parallel Computing Technologies : 5th International Conference PaCT 99 St. Petersburg Russia September 6–10 1999 Proceedings This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Congress on Parallel Computing Technologies PaCT 99 held in St. Petersburg Russia in September 1999. The 47 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 100 submissions. The papers address all current issues in parallel processing ranging from theory algorithms programming and software to implementation architectures hardware and applications