The event will provide answers to two questions: How successful applications of HPC technologies in various industries can help achieve industrial leadership in either innovation or large-scale data modelling - How PRACE, as the pan-European HPC research infrastructure, can help European industry apply novel HPC-based solutions by providing access to PRACE resources and knowledge

This year, attendees will come together with a renewed focus on Lustre development after a period of uncertainty over its future. With the formation of EOFS and OpenSFS to serve as focal points for the community, collaborative efforts on this open source file system for high performance computing are thriving. The 3-day conference will feature more than 30 presentations by users and developers in addition to round table discussions.

Urgent computing is a new area of computer science addressing algorithms, methods and tools enabling prioritized and immediate access to large compute and storage systems for emergency computations required for clever decision making in critical situations like floods, earthquakes, wildfires, terroristic attacks, epidemics, pandemics, instabilities in financial markets etc. Urgent computing is still in development and the main aim of this workshop is to assess its current status and indentify the most important challenges. Users and developers of such applications, scientists working on methods and tools for urgent computing, resources providers, and decision makers are invited to submit papers addressing topics related to urgent computing.

ICCS intends to provide a forum to disseminate world leading research in the field of (scientific) Computational Science and in particular to highlight the role which modelling and simulation plays in future scientific discovery. The focus of ICCS has always been to enable scientists through the development of computational techniques and technologies. At the centre of this are the thematic workshops which are intended to present more focused research in various areas of Computational Science, such as Computational Biology and Computational Physics. This is not limited to the hard sciences and the organizers would specifically like to encourage 'new' areas such as Computational Sociology and Psychology.

ICCS intends to provide a forum to disseminate world leading research in the field of (scientific) Computational Science and in particular to highlight the role which modelling and simulation plays in future scientific discovery. The focus of ICCS has always been to enable scientists through the development of computational techniques and technologies. At the centre of this are the thematic workshops which are intended to present more focused research in various areas of Computational Science, such as Computational Biology and Computational Physics. This is not limited to the hard sciences and the organizers would specifically like to encourage 'new' areas such as Computational Sociology and Psychology.

Now in its 27th year, ISC is the world's oldest and one of the most important conferences for the HPC community, offering a strong five-day technical programme with a wide range of expert speakers and exhibits from leading research centres and vendors. A number of events complement the technical programme, including Tutorials, Workshops, TOP500 Announcement, Research Paper Sessions, Birds of a Feather (BoF) Sessions, Research Poster Session, Exhibitor and Start-up Forums, and the popular Hot Seat Sessions in a new format featuring leaders from industry and research centres. The conference has experienced tremendous growth over the last few years, with an estimated 2,400 participants from around the world expected to convene in Hamburg.

The summer school is designed to foster international and multi-disciplinary research collaborations with U.S. and European graduate and postdoctoral scholars. Leading American and European computational scientists and HPC technologists will present a variety of topics, including: An overview of EU and U.S. cyberinfrastructure; HPC challenges by discipline (e.g., bioinformatics, computer science, chemistry, and physics); HPC Programming Proficiencies; Performance Analysis & Profiling; Algorithmic Approaches & Numerical Libraries; Data Intensive Computing; and Scientific Visualization.

The deployment of many applications in distributed systems is often underpinned by co-operative schemes. These are required to address the pressing need to harness and marshal resources across dynamic andheterogeneous environments. Cooperative systems create spaces where entities can interact with each other and their environments, and provide services in order to help achieve specific goals. They are characterised by the degree of distribution, the underlying mode of interaction and the level of autonomy of the entities. Client-server architectures, P2P systems, GRID systems and multi-agent systems (MAS) identify different models of cooperative behaviour.

Effective cooperation demands that autonomous entities and systems overcome their environmental heterogeneity and resolve their syntactic and semantic differences. By adhering to common abstractions and models the participating entities are insulated from the complexity of the environments of their protagonists. This facilitates the unfolding of processes such as data and system integration, coordination of behaviour, resource access and sharing, and participation in complex activities. In managing the differences between entities, systems and environments a range of methods and techniques were introduced in order to support interoperation and facilitate semantic interoperability. Resource and process management, configuration, adaptation and negotiation define a wide spectrum of cooperation, from reactive behaviour to proactiveintervention. These tasks are being enhanced by ontologies, context awareness and adaptivity.

The key goal of the Community Forum is to showcase the role that EGI plays in enabling innovation across the European Research Area. The forum will highlight the services, technologies and tools available to scientific communities to better support their research. The organisers invite both developers of distributed computing applications and services and the research communities who make use of them to attend the event and find out more about the current state of the art and let your voice be heard to influence the strategy and plans for the future of the EGI community.

GlobusWORLD offers over two days of presentations, tutorials, and networking opportunities for users, developers and resource owners.

Rapid advances in processing, communication and systems/middleware technologies are leading to new paradigms and platforms for computing, ranging from computing Clusters to widely distributed Grid and emerging Clouds. CCGrid is a series of very successful conferences, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and ACM, with the overarching goal of bringing together international researchers, developers, and users and to provide an international forum to present leading research activities and results on a broad range of topics related to these platforms and paradigms and their applications. The conference features keynotes, technical presentations, posters and research demos, workshops, tutorials, as well as the SCALE challenges featuring live demonstrations.

The conference will gather researchers, practicioners, developers and users of distributed infrastructures for biomedical research and clinical deployment. Besides the traditional scientific program and key note speakers, this year the conference will also feature special topics: a restrospective, lookingback at the 10 years of HealthGrid developments highlights of achievements of the Life Science Grid Community (LSGC) joint session on Scientific Gateways with IWSG-Life - tutorials and demos

IPDPS is an international forum for engineers and scientists from around the world to present their latest research findings in all aspects of parallel computation. In addition to technical sessions of submitted paper presentations, the meeting offers workshops, tutorials, and commercial presentations and exhibits. IPDPS represents a unique international gathering of computer scientists from around the world. Now, more than ever, the organizers prize this annual meeting as a testament to the strength of international co-operation in seeking to apply computer science technology to the betterment of our global village.

New technologies and experimental methods in the field of life sciences have enabled researchers to create huge amounts of data in extremely short times. In turn, analysing this data demands a rise of compute power, storage, and data transmission. An enormous number of complex and sophisticated algorithms and tools have been developed to aid research. The demand for compute power and storage is met with a rise in provision of infrastructure and High-Performance Computing facilities and has resulted in the popularity of novel utility computing infrastructures, such as grid and cloud computing. Despite the increasing availability of resources, the broad uptake of these facilities and infrastructures is not following the same pace. The main reasons for this lie in the complexity of the human interface to these computing infrastructures.

There are already several well established Grid and Cloud infrastructures in Europe. The next issue is how to exploit these infrastructures, how to port and develop application for these infrastructures and how to extend their user communities. The main goal of this summer school is to give answers for these questions and to promote best practice examples for potential application developers and users of e-science infrastructures. Three current FP7 projects organize this summer school to show various aspects of user support for the European Grid and Cloud infrastructures: SCI-BUS, SHIWA and EDGI. Although the summer school is organized by these three projects its subject is not restricted for showing the technologies developed by these projects. Related projects will be invited to explain how their technologies are related with the technologies mentioned above and how the potential users can exploit all these technologies together.

The objective of ISPA 2012 is to provide a forum for scientists and engineers in academia and industry to exchange and discuss their experiences, new ideas, research results, and applications about all aspects of parallel and distributed computing and networking. It will feature session presentations, workshops, tutorials, and keynote speeches. ISPA-12 is sponsored by IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and IEEE Computer Society.

The conference will cover following topics: Experience accumulated on the implementation and exploitation of grid infrastructures; Methods and technologies of distributed computing, architecture topics; Network infrastructure for distributed data processing and storage; Algorithms and methods of solving applied problems in distributed computing environments; Theory, modeling, and methods of distributed data processing; Distributed information systems: implementation technologies and usage; Cloud computing and consolidation of the distributed resources Grid applications in science (high-energy physics, computational chemistry, biology and biomedicine, Earth science, economics, etc.); Education in the field of distributed computing and Grid technologies. The conference will have the special Desktop Grid track devoted to the end of the DEGISCO project and Desktop Grid tutorial.

Analogous to a desktop operating system, an Internet Operating System (IOS) brings together computational technologies that allow users to manage Internet resources (including documents, devices and applications). Unlike a desktop operating system, however, an Internet Operating System involves millions of people and it requires technologies that can stimulate the generation of content from a wide spectrum of human activities including personal, professional, cultural, social, and many others. Interdisciplinary (Intra-disciplinary within Computer Science) in nature, the ultimate success of IOS requires new, synergized technologies be developed from various disciplines such as Computer Science, Social Sciences, Engineering, Physical Sciences, Medicine, Law, Business and Humanities.

This workshop aims to present researched articles to describe and explore Enterprise Cloud Computing principles, infrastructures, technologies and methodologies. It also aims to investigate the issues inherent in Cloud approaches and limitations with respect to frameworks, methodologies and technologies and present solutions and strategies. A secondary objective is to explore synergies between Service Oriented Architectures, Grid Computing Frameworks and Enterprise Cloud Computing and discuss these with a view to suggesting recommendations and best practices for Enterprise Architects and business managers.

CLOSER focuses on the emerging area of Cloud Computing, inspired by some latest advances that concern the infrastructure, operations, and available services through the global network. Further, the conference considers as essential the link to Services Science, acknowledging the service-orientation in most current IT-driven collaborations. The conference is nevertheless not about the union of these two (already broad) fields, but about Cloud Computing where we are also interested in how Services Science can provide theory, methods and techniques to design, analyze, manage, market etc. Cloud Computing.

The conference includes the following tracks: CLOUD: Cloud Computing CLOUD: Challenging features CLOUD: Platforms, Infrastructures and Applications GRID: Grid networks, services and applications - VIRTUALIZATION: Computing in virtualization-based environments

The conference will focus on compute and data intensive applications, their resources needs in the Cloud, and strategies on implementing and deploying Cloud infrastructures. The organizers expect 250 attendees from industry and academia, and 25 invited experts to share their own experiences in the Cloud over one-and-a-half day.

The ambition of the conference is to highlight how global research infrastructures can respond to the Grand Challenges: lessons, priorities and future directions. One important output from the conference is specific recommendations on international co-operation on research infrastructures. This may include calling for a co-ordinated support and strengthening of existing initiatives, highlighting possible needs for additional efforts, and deploying a vision of open science.

CSEDU aims at becoming a yearly meeting place for presenting and discussing new educational environments, best practices and case studies on innovative technology-based learning strategies, institutional policies on computer supported education including open and distance education, using computers. In particular, the Web is currently a preferred medium for distance learning and the learning practice in this context is usually referred to as e-learning. CSEDU 2012 is expected to give an overview of the state of the art as well as upcoming trends, and to promote discussion about the pedagogical potential of new learning and educational technologies in the academic and corporate world.

The European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software is the primary European forum for academic and industrial researchers working on topics relating to Software Science.

Rewriting logic (RL) is a natural model of computation and an expressive semantic framework for concurrency, parallelism, communication, and interaction. It can be used for specifying a wide range of systems and languages in various application fields. It also has good properties as a metalogical framework for representing logics. In recent years, several languages based on RL (ASF+SDF, CafeOBJ, ELAN, Maude) have been designed and implemented. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers with a common interest in RL and its applications, and to give them the opportunity to present their recent works,discuss future research directions, and exchange ideas.

The topics addressed by the conference are the following: research, development, evaluation and best practices that deal with Engineering Education in academic, organisational, and life-long learning settings.

The conference aims to review and discuss recent advances and promisingresearch trends in continuous and discrete optimization theory, methods, applications and software development.

This is the twenty-first in a series of Annual Conferences supported by the European Commission, which regularly attracts over 500 delegates from industry and research to share experiences and research results, identify future trends, discuss business opportunities and identify opportunities for international research collaboration under the ICT Theme of Framework Programme 7 (FP7). It will thus contribute to showcasing European research in the field, and position it within the multiplicity of related initiatives supported in other regions of the world. In the context of convergence and innovation, the 21st Future Network and MobileSummit will address the challenges of building the Future Internet Infrastructures, based on mobile, wireless and fixed broadband communications technologies.

The NAMS mission is to serve the synthetic membrane community by fostering the development and dissemination of knowledge in membrane science and technology, and by promoting the collaborative efforts of researchers, technologists and end-users.

The conference has successfully established itself as an international forum for providers, practitioners and researchers into reliable software technologies. The conference presentations will illustrate current work in the theory and practice of the design, development and maintenance of long-lived, high-quality software systems for a variety of application domains. The programme will allow ample time for keynotes, Q&A sessions, panel discussions and social events. Participants will include practitioners and researchers representing industry, academia and government organizations active in the promotion and development of reliable software technologies.

This conference will provide a forum for engineers, scientists, educators, and business personnel alike to present their latest findings on the subject of CAD/CAM/CAE research, education and business.

The ICCSA Conference offers a real opportunity to discuss new issues, tackle complex problems and find advanced enabling solutions able to shape new trends in Computational Science. The present ICCSA event, organized for the first time in Southern America, is aimed at contributing to the scientific advance of Computational Science in the whole continent and in Brazil in particular.

Conference topics include: algorithmic foundations of automatic differentiation (AD) applications in science, engineering, and finance; especially ODE, DAE, inverse problems, and optimization AD and numerical paradigms higher-order derivatives combinatorial problems in AD AD tool design and implementation - exploitation of parallelism

The aim of the Euromembrane Conference series is to bring together academic and industrial scientists from the field of membrane science and technology to stimulate contacts and to exchange new ideas on their research work. The conference will cover all types of membrane and related work including membrane materials, membrane fabrication and characterisation, modelling and simulation, membranes for process intensification, and application.

The International Conference on Conceptual Modeling is a leading international forum for presenting and discussing current research and applications in which the major emphasis is on conceptual modelling. Topics of interest span the entire spectrum of conceptual modelling including research and practice in areas such as theories of concepts and ontologies underlying conceptual modelling, methods and tools for developing and communicating conceptual models, and techniques for transforming conceptual models into effective implementations.

While most other conferences tend to focus much on materials science and others specialize on specific membrane technologies, the AMK tries to bring together people from a broad range of backgrounds with the aim of interdisciplinary knowledge exchange on membrane innovations. The topics of the presentations will be a well-balanced mixture discussing membranes in water treatment, gas separation, solvent recovery, process engineering, energy applications, biotechnology and health. The development of new membranes will be treated as well as operational experiences and module design with an emphasis of industrial relevance.

The purpose of the 8th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the technological advances and business applications of web-based information systems. The conference has five main tracks, covering different aspects of Web Information Systems, including Internet Technology, Web Interfaces and Applications, Society, e-Communities, e-Business, Web Intelligence and Mobile Information Systems.

The development and progress in Internet technology, infrastructure and services have been led by the research community since the very beginning of the Internet. Today, that community is still the main driver of the further development of the Internet. In Europe, this leading role is made possible by the collaboration of network engineers and managers from all over the region, facilitated and supported by TERENA.