High Performance Computing Symposium (HPCS2010)

Welcome to the Proceedings for HPCS2010! HPCS (High Performance Computing Symposium) is Canada's foremost HPC conference – a multidisciplinary conference where computational researchers from all disciplines in industry and academia, computer scientists, and vendors exchange new tools, techniques and interesting results in and for HPC computational research. HPCS2010, the 24th in the series, took place at the University of Toronto, 5–9 June. We are very pleased with the range and depth of excellent work that was presented at this year's High Performance Computing Symposium. The work that follows is a collection of papers presented by authors from institutions in five countries, covering topics ranging from squeezing every last cycle out of a single GPU to the design of an entire data centre, and almost everything in between. We particularly encourage you to look through the 'Award Winners' section, where works are presented by junior and student researchers which were awarded prizes for being amongst the best work presented at HPCS2010. Enjoy the excellent research that follows, and we look forward to seeing you in Montreal for HPCS2011! Jonathan Dursi, for all of members of the Scientific Organizing Committee of HPCS2010.