Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface : 5th European PVM MPI Users Group Meeting Liverpool UK September 7 9 1998 Proceedings This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th European Meeting of the Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface Users Group PVM MPI 98 held in Liverpool UK in September 1998.The 49 contributed and invited papers presented were carefully reviewed and revised for inclusion in the volume. All current aspects of PVM and MPI are addressed. The papers are organized in topical sections on evaluation and performance extensions and improvements implementation issues tools and algorithms