Recent advances in parallel virtual machine and message passing interface : 10th European PVM MPI Users Group Meeting Venice Italy September 29 October 2 2003 ; proceedings This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th European PVM MPI Users Group Meeting held in Venice Italy in September October 2003. The 64 revised full papers and 16 revised short papers presented together with abstracts of 8 invited contributions and 7 reviewed special track papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 115 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on evaluation and performance analysis; parallel algorithms using message passing; extensions improvements and implementations of PVM MPI; parallel programming tools; applications in science and engineering; grid and heterogeneous computing; and numerical simulation of parallel engineering environments ParSim 2003