Founded in April, 1992 and financed by the State of Bavaria and the Bavarian Re search Foundation, the Bavarian Consortium for High Performance Scientific Comput ing (FORTWIHR) consists of more than 40 scientists working in the fields of engineer ing sciences, applied mathematics, and computer science at the Technische Universitat Munchen and at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg. Its inter disciplinary concept is based on the recognition that the increasing significance of the yet young discipline High Performance Scientific Computing (HPSC) can only be given due...