Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the invited speakers for extremely interesting tutorials and lectures which present an overview of diverse important areas of high performance computing. We are very grateful to the referees for their effort in evaluating contributed papers in a very short time. Drawing up the interesting programme for the conference would not be possible without invaluable suggestions and contributions of the members of the Programme Committee. The Conference was running smoothly thanks to efforts of the session chaimen.

We owe thanks to our sponsors for their generous financial support.

This event would not have been possible without personal involvement and enthusiastic support of Malgorzata Kozlowska, Under-Secretary of State in State Committee for Scientific Research, Marian Noga, Director of the Academic Computer Centre CYFRONET-KRAKOW, Ryszard Tadeusiewicz, Vice-Rector of the University of Mining and Metallurgy (AGH), and Aleksander Suchanek, Director of the Office for Scientific Research of the University of Mining and Metallurgy (AGH).

We are truly grateful to Dr Krzysztof Pakonski, Deputy Mayor of Cracow for his participation in the Opening Ceremony.

Management and staff of the Continental Hotel and the Point Travel Agency are acknowledged for excellent collaboration.

Finally, we would like to express our gratitude to all the members of the Organizing Committee and to many people from ACC CYFRONET-KRAKOW who assisted in the organization of HiPer'97 for their invaluable help. Our warm thanks go to Zofia Mosurska, Milena Zajac and Maria Stawiarska who have efficiently solved an incredible number of unsolvable problems. We are also indebted to Teresa Ozga, Mieczyslaw Pilipczuk, Danuta Niesiolowska, Marek Ksiezyk and Andrzej Ozieblo for providing administrative and logistical support, and to Stanislaw Polak and Rafal Wcislo for their help in editing the Proceedings.

Jacek Moscinski
Marian Bubak