We consider the following singularly perturbed elliptic problemwhere satisfies some growth conditions, , and () is a smooth and bounded domain. The cases (Neumann problem) and (Dirichlet problem) have been studied by many authors in recent years. We show that, there exists a generic constant such that, as , the least energy solution has a spike near the boundary if , and has an interior spike near the innermost part of the domain if . Central to our study is the corresponding problem...