High Performance Computing — HiPC 2000 : 7th International Conference Bangalore India December 17–20 2000 Proceedings This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on High Performance Computing HiPC 2000 held in Bangalore India in December 2000. The 46 revised papers presented together with five invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 127 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on system software algorithms high performance middleware applications cluster computing architecture applied parallel processing networks wireless and mobile communication systems and large scale data mining