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In this report we give a short summary of the conference and provide some general impressions. For more detailed information the reader is referred to the conference proceedings which will be published by Elsevier Science Publishers in the monograph series "Advances in Parallel Computing". A selection of the best posters will be published in a special issue of Parallel Computing. The topics of the paper presentations, with nearly 100 contributions (talks and posters) were: applications, algorithms (numerical and non-numerical), hardware and architectures, languages and software tools, performance considerations.The technical program consisted of five invited talks and 57 contributed presentations (70 % Europe, 16 % USA, 10 % Asia and Australia). Aside from the talks, a poster session with 36 presentations also took place for the first time.The practical emphasis of the conference was accentuated by an industrial session and a vendor exhibition with contributions from AMT, Alliant, Caplin Cybernetics, Intel, MasPar, PARSYS, Thinking Machines, and Transtech