This version of MUMPS has been developed by employees of CERFACS, ENS Lyon,
INPT(ENSEEIHT)-IRIT, Inria and University of Bordeaux: Emmanuel Agullo,
Patrick Amestoy, Maurice Bremond, Alfredo Buttari, Philippe Combes, Aurelia
Fevre, Abdou Guermouche, Guillaume Joslin, Jacko Koster, Jean-Yves L'Excellent,
Stephane Pralet, Chiara Puglisi, Francois-Henry Rouet, Wissam Sid-Lakhdar,
Tzvetomila Slavova, Bora Ucar and Clement Weisbecker.

We are grateful to Caroline Bousquet, Indranil Chowdhury, Christophe Daniel,
Iain Duff, Vincent Espirat, Gregoire Richard, Alexis Salzman, Miroslav Tuma and
Christophe Voemel who have been contributing to this project.

We are also grateful to Juergen Schulze for letting us distribute PORD developed
at the University of Paderborn. We thank Eddy Caron for the administration of a
server used on a daily basis for MUMPS.

We want to thank the French ANR programme, the European community, Altair, 
EADS-IW, EDF, EMGS, ESI Group, FFT, LSTC, Michelin, SAMTECH (now Siemens), Total 
for their support. 
We also thank the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, PARALLAB (Bergen)
and Rutherford Appleton Laboratory for research discussions that have certainly
influenced this work. 

Finally we want to thank the institutions that have provided access to their
parallel machines: Centre Informatique National de l'Enseignement Superieur
(CINES), CERFACS, CICT-CALMIP (Centre Interuniversitaire de Calcul de Toulouse),
Federation Lyonnaise de Calcul Haute-Performance, Institut du Developpement et
des Ressources en Informatique Scientifique (IDRIS), Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory, Laboratoire de l'Informatique du Parallelisme, Inria, and PARALLAB.
