Special Session organized at: 

  The 1998 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and
  Applications (PDPTA'98) July 13 - 16, 1998, Las Vegas Hilton, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA 

  Session was initiated, organized, put together, and chaired by H.-A. Jacobsen
  (jacobsen@icsi.berkeley.edu). 

  "Middleware for High Performance Distributed Computing" 

    
The Implementation of a Distributed Framework to support 'Follow Me'
Applications Paul Webster (pmw@cam-orl.co.uk), Pete Steggles, and Andy
Harter The Olivetti and Oracle Research Laboratory, Cambridge, England 
    
TENT, a CORBA based Component Architecture, for integrating
MPI-parallel CFD-Simulation systems, and their supporting tools Thomas
Breitfeld (Thomas.Breitfeld@gmd.de) and Sven Kolibal GMD-SCAI, German
National Research Center for Information Technology, Germany
    
The UniServer Architecture D. Schischkin and G. Weber
(webser@inf.fu-berlin.de) Institute of Computer Science, Free
University Berlin, Germany
    
OmniBroker Concurrency Models Marc Laukien (ml@ooc.com) Object
Oriented Concepts, Inc., Billerica, MA, USA 

Towards High-performance Multithreaded CORBA Servers Arno Jacobsen
(jacobsen@icsi.berkeley.edu) and Boris Weissman ICSI, Berkeley,
California, USA; Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
    
Message-passing on a Budget: A Review of High Performance Distributed
Memory Computing for Commodity Implementation Alberto Squassabia
(alsq@alsqhpw.cnd.hp.com) HP, TMD.
    
Performance measurements of Java RMI over ATM Juergen Quittek
(quittek@ccrle.nec.de), Jan Nicklisch, and Sebastien Robidou C&C
Research Laboratories, NEC Europe Ltd., Germany
    
Jash: A Platform for Sharing Data in Distributed Java Applications Jerzy Brzezinski, Cezary
Sobaniec (sobaniec@CS.PUT.Poznan.PL), Michal Szychowiak, and Dariusz Wawrzyniak Poznan
University of Technology, Poznan, Poland