Message from HPSEC Workshop Co-chairs

Abstract

High performance computing is one of the most exciting technologies used in solving real-world problems in computational science and engineering. It is expected that the years to come will witness a proliferation of the use of parallel and distributed systems. High performance computing plays an important role in determining and shaping research and development activities in numerous academic and industrial branches, especially when the solution of large-scale problems must cope with ever-increasingly harder requirements for computing time and storage space. This special workshop is an international forum that brings together researchers, practitioners, and students working in the areas of computer architecture, system and network, algorithms, and applications to present, discuss, and exchange ideas, results, work in progress, and experience of research and practice in the area of high performance computing for science and engineering applications.The workshop received many submissions representing 7 countries. All submissions were carefully reviewed by our committee members and external reviewers. In order to allocate as many papers as possible and also keep the high quality of the workshop, we finally decided to accept 14 papers for oral technical presentation at the workshop. We believe these papers and their presentation will provide novel ideas and the state-of-the-art techniques as well as stimulate future research activities in the area of high performance computing for science and engineering applications.The program for this workshop is the result of hard and excellent work of many people, including the authors, the external reviewers, and the program committee members. We would like to express our sincere appreciation to all of them for their cooperation in completing the workshop program under a tight schedule. We also want to thank Fusun Ozguner and Tim Pinkston, ICPP-2006 Workshop Co-Chairs, for encouraging and helping the inclusion of HPSEC-06 in ICPP-06.