The Parallel Tools Consortium has been formed explicitly to address the problem of millions of dollars being spent developing a plethora of different parallel programming tools and systems with little to show for it. For further detail on the Parallel Tools Consortium (and its first open meeting at NASA Ames 8-10 June) use the PTOOLS contcat info below. To have your email address added to the PTOOLS reflector, and to receive more information about the Consortium, send a message to ptools-request@llnl.gov For more general information about the Consortium, access: http://www.llnl.gov/ptools/ptools.html