README.TXT

SUBMITTED TO CONCURRENCY: PRACTICE AND EXPERIENCE

Kivanc Dincer and Geoffrey C. Fox
"Using Java in the Virtual Programming Laboratory: 
 A Web-Based Parallel Programming Environment"

Northeast Parallel Architectures Center
111 College Place, CST Mail-Stop 3-217
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13244-4100 
{dincer, gcf}@npac.syr.edu

You can find the this document on the Web in HTML format:
   http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/dincer/papers/vpl/.

This diskette contains the following files:
 Vpl-conc.doc   (A Microsoft Word 6.0 document written on an IBM PC)
 Vpl-conc.txt   (Same document saved as "Text Only")
 Vpl-conc.ltx   (Same document saved as "Text with Line Breaks")
 Vpl-conc.rtf   (Same document saved in Rich Text Format)
 vpl.gif        (GIF file for Figure 3)
 jpvs.gif       (GIF file for Figure 6)
 vplplot.gif    (GIF file for Figure 8)

 (Other figures are extracted from Microsoft Powerpoint 4.0 slides and 
  direcly included in the document - and can be edited via Edit option
  in the Word.).

 There are also following jpg files that were obtained by scanning
 the printed output of the remaining figures created by using Powerpoint)
   vpl-fig1.jpg
   vpl-fig2.jpg
   vpl-fig4.jpg
   vpl-fig5.jpg

There are also postscript files for all figures
   VPL-fig1.PS
   VPL-fig2.PS
   VPL-fig3.PS (previously vpl.jpg)
   VPL-fig4.PS
   VPL-fig5.PS
   VPL-fig6.PS (previously jpvs.jpg)
   VPL-fig8.PS (previously vplplot.jpg)