
I wish to welcome all of you to the International Symposium on High Perf- mance Computing 2002 (ISHPC2002) and to Kansai Science City, which is not farfromtheancientcapitalsofJapan: NaraandKyoto.ISHPC2002isthefourth in the ISHPC series, which consists, to date, of ISHPC '97 (Fukuoka,...