This goal of this project is to develop a prototype for a new style of strong-interaction physics simulation. Traditional simulations in this field have relied upon massively parallel supercomputers with tightly coupled processors. However, recent algorithmic advances open the possibility of using large farms of loosely coupled PC's. Prof. Lepage plans to use the Intel machines received under this grant to prototype this new approach.  Three machines, a server and two desktop units, have been installed during the last two months. Prof. Lepage has almost finished porting the major simulation codes to Windows NT. The underlying codes are written in C++, while Python is used as the high-level scripting language.  Serious benchmark simulations will begin once the six remaining machines are installed (probably Summer 1998). At that time additional researchers will become involved.  A laptop was also provided by the grant for use in seminars and colloquia at other institutions. With the new simulation techniques, a complete, albeit simple, simulation is possible on a laptop in a single hour-long seminar. So far it has been featured in seminars at Stanford University, Syracuse University, and University of Maryland.