Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing : IPPS 97 Processing Workshop Geneva Switzerland April 5 1997 Proceedings This book constitutes the strictly refereed post workshop proceedings of the 1997 IPPS Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing held in Geneva Switzerland in April 1997 as a satelite meeting of the IEEE CS International Parallel Processing Symposium. The 12 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and revised for inclusion in the book. Also included is a detailed introduction surveying the state of the art in the area. Among the topics covered are processor allocation parallel scheduling massively parallel processing shared memory architectures gang scheduling etc