This volume contains 27 papers from the Second International Conference on Vector and Parallel Processing - Systems and Applications, held in Portugal in September 1996. It spans a wide spectrum of topics from parallel linear algebra and computational fluid dynamics to simulation and visualization.

High performance computing in power system applications.- Providing access to high performance computing technologies.- Scan-directional architectures.- Markov chain based management of large scale distributed computations of earthen dam leakages.- Irregular data-parallel objects in C++.- Control and data flow analysis for parallel program debugging.- ProHos-1 — A vector processor for the efficient estimation of higher-order moments.- The use of computational kernels in full and sparse linear solvers, efficient code design on high-performance RISC processors.- Parallel implementation of a symmetric eigensolver based on the Yau and Lu method.- Preconditioned conjugate gradient methods for semiconductor device simulation on a CRAY C90 vector processor.- A Parallel implementation of the general Lanczos method on the CRAY T3D.- Parallel and distributed computations in a parameter inverse problem.- Automated optimal design using CFD and high performance computing.- Parallelization of the discrete ordinates method: Two different approaches.- Experiences with advanced CFD algorithms on NEC SX-4.- Parallelization of CFD code using PVM and domain decomposition techniques.- Possibilities of parallel computing in the finite element analysis of industrial forming processes.- Preconditioners for nonsymmetric linear systems in domain decomposition applied to a coupled discretization of Navier-Stokes equations.- Parallel implementation of non recurrent neural networks.- Parallel computing of fragment vector in Steiner triple systems.- Stabilizing large control linear systems on multicomputers.- An interface based on transputers to simulate the dynamic equation of robot manipulators using parallel computing.- Large scale traffic simulations.- Parallel method for automatic shapedetermination via the evolution of morphological sequences.- Principal component analysis on vector computers.- Functional programming and parallel processing.- A scalable implementation of an interactive increasing realism ray-tracing algorithm.

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