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