Invited Talks -- New Directions in PVM/Harness Research -- Towards a Productive MPI Environment -- Components of Systems Software for Parallel Systems -- Virtualization in Parallel Distributed Computing -- Tutorials -- Advanced Message Passing and Threading Issues -- Using MPI-2: A Problem-Based Approach -- Algorithms -- Some Improvements to a Parallel Decomposition Technique for Training Support Vector Machines -- Nesting OpenMP in MPI to Implement a Hybrid Communication Method of Parallel Simulated Annealing on a Cluster of SMP Nodes -- Computing Frequent Itemsets in Parallel Using Partial Support Trees -- A Grid-Aware Branch, Cut and Price Implementation -- An Optimal Broadcast Algorithm Adapted to SMP Clusters -- Efficient Implementation of Allreduce on BlueGene/L Collective Network -- Scalable Fault Tolerant MPI: Extending the Recovery Algorithm -- Hash Functions for Datatype Signatures in MPI -- Extensions and Improvements -- Implementing MPI-IO Shared File Pointers Without File System Support -- An Efficient Parallel File System for Cluster Grids -- Cooperative Write-Behind Data Buffering for MPI I/O -- Hint Controlled Distribution with Parallel File Systems -- Implementing Byte-Range Locks Using MPI One-Sided Communication -- An Improved Algorithm for (Non-commutative) Reduce-Scatter with an Application -- Collective Error Detection for MPI Collective Operations -- Implementing OpenMP for Clusters on Top of MPI -- Designing a Common Communication Subsystem -- Dynamic Interoperable Message Passing -- Analysis of the Component Architecture Overhead in Open MPI -- A Case for New MPI Fortran Bindings -- Design Alternatives and Performance Trade-Offs for Implementing MPI-2 over InfiniBand -- Designing a Portable MPI-2 over Modern Interconnects Using uDAPL Interface -- Experiences, Strategies and Challenges in Adapting PVM to VxWorks TM Hard Real-Time Operating System, for Safety-Critical Software -- MPJ/Ibis: A Flexible and Efficient Message Passing Platform for Java -- Cluster and Grid -- The Open Run-Time Environment (OpenRTE): A Transparent Multi-cluster Environment for High-Performance Computing -- PVM-3.4.4 + IPv6: Full Grid Connectivity -- Utilizing PVM in a Multidomain Clusters Environment -- Enhancements to PVM’s BEOLIN Architecture -- Migol: A Fault-Tolerant Service Framework for MPI Applications in the Grid -- Applicability of Generic Naming Services and Fault-Tolerant Metacomputing with FT-MPI -- A Peer-to-Peer Framework for Robust Execution of Message Passing Parallel Programs on Grids -- MGF: A Grid-Enabled MPI Library with a Delegation Mechanism to Improve Collective Operations -- Tools and Environments -- Automatic Performance Analysis of Message Passing Applications Using the KappaPI 2 Tool -- Benchmarking One-Sided Communication with SKaMPI 5 -- A Scalable Approach to MPI Application Performance Analysis -- High-Level Application Specific Performance Analysis Using the G-PM Tool -- ClusterGrind: Valgrinding LAM/MPI Applications -- MPISH2: Unix Integration for MPI Programs -- Ensemble-2: Dynamic Composition of MPMD Programs -- New User-Guided and ckpt-Based Checkpointing Libraries for Parallel MPI Applications, -- Performance -- Performance Profiling Overhead Compensation for MPI Programs -- Network Bandwidth Measurements and Ratio Analysis with the HPC Challenge Benchmark Suite (HPCC) -- A Space and Time Sharing Scheduling Approach for PVM Non-dedicated Clusters -- Efficient Hardware Multicast Group Management for Multiple MPI Communicators over InfiniBand -- Assessing MPI Performance on QsNet II -- Optimised Gather Collectives on QsNet II -- An Evaluation of Implementation Options for MPI One-Sided Communication -- A Comparison of Three MPI Implementations for Red Storm -- Applications -- Probing the Applicability of Polarizable Force-Field Molecular Dynamics for Parallel Architectures: A Comparison of Digital MPI with LAM-MPI and MPICH2 -- Symmetrical Data Sieving for Noncontiguous I/O Accesses in Molecular Dynamics Simulations -- Simulation of Ecologic Systems Using MPI -- Load Balancing and Computing Strategies in Pipeline Optimization for Parallel Visualization of 3D Irregular Meshes -- An Improved Mechanism for Controlling Portable Computers in Limited Coverage Areas -- An MPI Implementation for Distributed Signal Processing -- A Parallel Exponential Integrator for Large-Scale Discretizations of Advection-Diffusion Models -- Parallel Grid Adaptation and Dynamic Load Balancing for a CFD Solver -- Special Session: ParSim 2005 -- 4th International Special Session on: Current Trends in Numerical Simulation for Parallel Engineering Environments ParSim 2005 -- Applying Grid Techniques to an Octree-Based CSCW Framework -- Parallel Modeling of Transient States Analysis in Electrical Circuits -- The COOLFluiD Parallel Architecture -- Calculation of Single-File Diffusion Using Grid-Enabled Parallel Generic Cellular Automata Simulation -- Harnessing High-Performance Computers for Computational Steering.