These ten papers represent a range of applications for the practical use of parallel computing. They address large scale high performance applications, data transfer and storage cost minimization, two-stroke engine applications, large air pollution models, parallel global aircraft configuration design, parallel execution time analysis, parallel randomized heuristics, the analysis of complex waveguide circuits, reading database copy, and business process re-engineering. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)