Front cover figure: Quantum Monte Carlo simulation of the t-J model at finite doping (by a new developed/2y^n£/-/oopQMC). Dynamical spin correlation function for J/1 = 2 at electron density/) = 0.75.This volume presents an overview of the research conducted in 2003/2004 on the high performance computing systems of the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS). It also reflects the changes in organization and focus of the center which are briefly described here. In 2003 HLRS has teamed up with the University of Karlsruhe in the Competence Center for High Performance Computers of the State of Baden-Wiirttemberg (hkz-bw). This cooperation was gradually deployed during 2004 and has helped to improve the basic services. With an extension of the cooperation to other universities HLRS aims at further strengthening its ties with researchers in the State of Baden-Wiirttemberg. Users should beneflt from such a larger pool of expertise and the transformation of basic research into simulation results should be improved.The key to high performance computing is the availability of a competitive computer system. HLRS was able to sign a contract with NEC in early 2004 for a next generation high performance computing system that will serve VI Preface as a national HPC resource for Germany. That system will be the fastest European system in sustained level of performance when being installed in early 2005. The high level of sustained performance is achieved by using vector processors. To meet the requirements of a wide variety of users the system is complemented by an HP cluster system installed at Karlsruhe. This system will serve as a state-wide simulation resource. A high level of performance can thus be achieved for at least two types of architectures, and discussions are under way how to close the PC-cluster gap.The variety of architectures is again reflected in the contributions of this volume. They were presented at the 7th HLRS Results and Review Workshop on October 4-5 at the HLRS and show a wide spectrum of applications. Altogether 32 contributions were presented in oral and poster communications, selected from all projects processed at the HLRS and at the SSC Karlsruhe since October 2003. The investigations reported were initiated at the universities The contributions are loosely arranged according to their disciplines in the six chapters physics, solid state physics, computational fluid dynamics, chemistry, computer science, and earth sciences. Seven of the 32 contributions are concerned with the numerical solution of problems in physics, six in solid state physics, eleven in computational fluid dynamics, four in chemistry, and two each in computer science, and earth sciences.The contributions in physics cover a wide range of topics. The first two in astrophysics from the Landessternwarte Konigsstuhl near Heidelberg are continuations of previous work: Large scale hydrodynamic simulations of a cooled, pulsed jet in symbiotic stars, and magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the interaction of jets with a galactic w...