Thirteen proceedings papers from the April 1996 conference addressing issues and solutions in high level programming models, and their difficulties in generated code performance and lack of high level development tools. The contributors represent academic and industrial research in the areas of shared virtual memory, data parallelism, performance engineering, and programming model support. Of particular interest are the presentations of a sophisticated performance analysis tool, and a new performance optimization method demonstrated on HPR programs. Lacks an index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.