Name of institution: University of Texas at San Antonio Name of contact person: Xiaodong Zhang Address for contact person: Division of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Texas at San Antonio San Antonio, Texas 78249 E-mail Address: 1mcxxz@utsa86.sa.utexas.edu Telephone number: (512) 691-6470 Access to what computers? a local sunwork station network, BBN GP1000, Sequent Symmetry, Intel 860. Degree offered? M.S, Ph.D. (pending for final official proval) in Computer Sci. Remarks relevant to courses offered: Modern computer architecture, Distributed OS, Parallel processing, Numerical Analysis, Numerical PDE, graphics, Distributed system performance measurement and modeling. Research activities: parallel methods for solving nonlinear systems and optimization problems, performance analysis and modeling of the distributed system, parallel VLSI simulation; architecture design for vector machines.