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Research and development of the earth simulator, K. Yoshida and S. Shingu; parallel computing at Canadian Meteorological Centre, J-P Toviessi et al; parallel elliptic solvers for the implicit global variable-resolution grid-point GEM model - iterative and fast direct methods, A. Qaddouri and J Cote; IFS developments, D. Dent et al; performance of parallelized forecast and analysis models at JMA, Y. Oikawa; building a scalable parallel architecture for spectal GCMS, T.N. Venkatesh et al; semi-implicit spectral element methods for atmospheric general circulation models, R.D. Loft and S.J. Thomas; experiments with NCEP's spectral model, J-F Estrade et al; the implementation of I/O servers in NCEP's ETA model on the IBM SP, J. Tuccillo; implementation of a complete weather forecasting suite on PARAM 10 000, S.C. Purohit et al; parallel load balance system of regional multiple scale advanced prediction system, J. Zhiyan; grid computing for meteorology, G-R Hoffmann; the requirements for an active archive at the Met Office, M. Carter; intelligent support for high I/O requirements of leading edge scientific codes on high-end computing systems - the ESTEDI project, K. Kleese and P. Baumann; coupled marine ecosystem modelling on high-performance computers, M. Ashworth et al; OpenMP in the physics portion of the Met Office model, R.W. Ford and P.M. Burton; converting the halo-update subroutine in the Met Office unified model to co-array Fortran, P.M. Burton et al; parallel ice dynamics in an operational Baltic Sea model, T. Wilhelmsson; parallel coupling of regional atmosphere and ocean models, S. Frickenhaus et al; dynamic load balancing for atmospheric models, G. Karagiorgos et al; HPC in Switzerland - new developments in numerical weather prediction, M. Ballabio et al; the role of advanced computing in future weather prediction, A.E. MacDonald; the scalable modelling system - a high-level alternative to MPI, M. Govett et al; development of a next-generation regional weather research and forecast model, J. Michalakes et al; parallel numerical kernels for climate models, V. Balaji; using accurate arithmetics to improve numerical reproducibility and stability in parallel applications, Y. He and C.H.Q. Ding; parallelization of a GCM using a hybrid approach on the IBM SP2, S. Cocke and Z. Christidis; developments in high performance computing at Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center, K.D. Pollak and R.M. Clancy; the computational performance of the NCEP seasonal forecast model on Fujitsu VPP5000 at ECMWF, H-M H. Juang and M. Kanamitsu; panel experience on using high performance computing in meteorology - summary of the discussion, P. Prior.