Euro-Par 2008 Parallel Processing 14th International Euro-Par Conference, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, August 26-29, 2008, Proceedings

Euro-Par is an annual series of international conferences dedicated to the promotion and advancement of all aspects of parallel computing. The major themes can be - vided into the broad categories of theory, high-performance, cluster and grid, and distributed and mobile computing. These four categories comprise 14 topics that focus on particular issues of the mentioned categories. The objective of Euro-Par is to provide a forum within which to promote the dev- opment of parallel computing both as an industrial technique and an academic dis- pline, extending the frontier of both the state of the art and the state of practice. The main audience for and participants in Euro-Par are seen as researchers in academic departments, government laboratories and industrial organizations. Previous Euro-Par conferences took place in Stockholm, Lyon, Passau, Southa- ton, Tolouse, Munich, Manchester, Padderborn, Klagenfurt, Pisa, Lisbon, Dresden and Rennes. Next year the conference will take place in Delft. Euro-Par 2008 was the 14th conference in the Euro-Par series. It was jointly - organized by the Computer Architecture and Operating Systems Department of the Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona and the University Institute for Intelligent S- tems and Numerical Applications in Engineering of the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, at the Tafira Campus of Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.