Aad J. van der Steen
Utrecht University,
High Performance Computing Group,
PO Box 80.195,
3508 TD Utrecht,
The Netherlands,
steen@phys.uu.nl
URL http://www.phys.uu.nl/~steen

Jack Dongarra
Department of Computer Science,
University of Tennessee,
Knoxville, TN 37996-1301,

and

Mathematical Sciences Section,
Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
Oak Ridge, TN 37831

NCF, the National Computing Facilities Foundation, supports and furthers the advancement of technical and scientific research with and into advanced computing facilities and prepares for the Netherlands national supercomputing policy. Advanced computing facilities are multi-processor vectorcomputers, massively parallel computingsystems of various architectures and concepts and advanced networking facilities.