this book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th international conference on high-performance computing and networking, hpcn europe 2000, held in amsterdam, the netherlands, in may 2000. the 52 revised full papers presented together with 34 revised posters were carefully reviewed for inclusion in the book. the papers are organized in sections on problem solving environments, metacomputing, load balancing, numerical parallel algorithms, virtual enterprises and virtual laboratories, cooperation coordination, web-based tools for tele-working, monitoring and performance, low-level algorithms, java in hpcn, cluster computing, data analysis, and applications in a variety of fields.