The day before the conference (20 June, Saturday) has been allocated to four tutorials on the following subjects:

• Benchmarking High Performance Computers: Fundamentals and Practice
  by Aad J. Van der Steen (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
• Efficient Code Design for RISC Processors
  by Michel J. Daydé, (ENSEEIHT-IRIT, France)
• Enabling Technologies for High Performance Computing
  by Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)

These tutorials were selected on the basis of their quality and interest for post-graduate students, to whom special rates are available. If you or any of your co-workers decides to attend any of these tutorials please register immediately.

The fourth tutorial, under the responsibility of the HUG-High Performance Fortran Users' Group, is:

• Introduction to HPF 2.0
  by John Merlin and Harald Ehold (University of Vienna, Austria)