The Mannheim Supercomputer Seminar is the main HPCN event in Europe. This year we publish two live issues from the event:

• On June 20 2002;
• On June 22 2002;

Contents of PrimeurLive!:

• Seventeenth edition of ISC2002 opens with 350 participants from 21 countries
• World of genetic engineered people not so brave as one might expect?
• Fast and easy Web searching for surfers takes smart parallel supercomputing in the wings
• High Performance Scientific Computing Support by the BMBF
• It is custom for experts to underestimate future trends
• HPC System at UmeĀ University built with Dolphin high-speed 3D interconnect
• DataDirect Networks to present scalable, high performance appliance-based 2Gb solutions
• A whole lot of shaking going on in the TOP500 supercomputer list
• Germany still Europe's main supercomputer country
• The TOP500 - a German view
• 19th Edition of TOP500 list of world's fastest supercomputers released
• New project for Integrated Performance Analysis of Computer Systems introduced
• Fifty Years of Computing at LLNL as a lens to the future
• Rick Stevens, Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago discussed different approaches to reach petaflops performance
• Myrinet Scalable Cluster Interconnect launched as a real world application
• SGI continues to invest in MIPS and IRIX
• Ready to buy a Cluster for your application but where to turn to?
• HP is delivering on the Compaq Alpha Server roadmap after merger
• HP still going strong with 168 TOP500 entries
• IBM presents servers and Grid samples in Heidelberg
• Sun is taking the Grid to mainstream with the Sun Fire server family
• Grid Technology Partners issues report on Global Grid Computing market
• Academia and vendors discuss merging of Grid, Cluster and Supercomputing at ISC2002 Tutorial
• The Grid is a twentyfirst century time machine
• The roots of grid computing in Europe lie in broadband networking projects
• Grid vision of distant resource sharing gives birth to powerful virtual organisations
• Science and commerece better served with HPC from T-Systems
• Dolphin Interconnect Solutions scores three positions on the TOP500 list of supercomputers