Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface : 4th European PVM MPI Users Group Meeting Cracow Poland November 3 5 1997 Proceedings This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th European Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface Users Group Meeting PVM MPI 97 held in Cracow Poland in November 1997. Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface are the most popular tools for programming in accordance with the message passing paradigm which at present is considered to be the best way to develop effective parallel programs. The book presents 63 carefully selected papers covering the whole range of PVM MPI issues. The papers are organized in sections on evaluation and performance extensions and improvements implementation tools algorithms and applications in science and engineering