Ebook: High Performance Computing and Communications: Second International Conference, HPCC 2006, Munich, Germany, September 13-15, 2006. Proceedings

Welcome to the proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on High- Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2006), which was held in Munich, Germany, September 13–15, 2006. This year’s conference marks the second edition of the HPCC conference series, and we are honored to serve as the Chairmen of this event with the guidance of the HPCC Steering Chairs, Beniamino Di Martino and Laurence T. Yang. Withthe rapidgrowthincomputingandcommunicationtechnology,thepast decadehas witnessed a proliferationof powerfulparallelanddistributed systems and an ever-increasing demand for the practice of high-performance computing and communication (HPCC). HPCC has moved into the mainstream of c- puting and has become a key technology in future research and development activities in many academic and industrial branches, especially when the so- tion of large and complex problems must cope with very tight time constraints. The HPCC 2006 conference provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and governmentto address all resulting profound challenges and to present and discuss their new ideas, research results, applications, and experience on all aspects of HPCC. There was a very large number of paper submissions (328), not only from Europe, but also from Asia and the Paci?c, and North and South America. This number of submissions represents a substantial increase of contributions compared to the ?rst year of HPCC, which clearly underlines the importance of this domain. AllsubmissionswerereviewedbyatleastthreeProgramCommitteemembers or external reviewers. It was extremely di?cult to select the presentations for theconferencebecausethereweresomanyexcellentandinterestingsubmissions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, HPCC 2006, held in Munich, Germany in September 2006.

The 95 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 328 submissions. The papers address all current issues of parallel and distributed systems and high performance computing and communication as there are: networking protocols, routing, and algorithms, languages and compilers for HPC, parallel and distributed architectures and algorithms, embedded systems, wireless, mobile and pervasive computing, Web services and internet computing, peer-to-peer computing, grid and cluster computing, reliability, fault-tolerance, and security, performance evaluation and measurement, tools and environments for software development, distributed systems and applications, database applications and data mining, biological/molecular computing, collaborative and cooperative environments, and programming interfaces for parallel systems.