Abstract

AusGrid event was broadened to include all aspects of parallel and distributed computing and hence was called as Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC). Following a couple of successful events, it comes to the 12th this year in the series. In both New Zealand and Australia parallel and distributed computing has been recognised as strategic technologies for driving their moves towards knowledge economies. A number of projects and initiatives are underway in both countries in these areas. There is a natural interest in tools which support collaboration and access to remote resources given the challenges of the countries location and sparse populations. Topics of interest for the symposium include (but not limited to): -    Cloud computing -    Big Data -    Grid computing -    Cluster computing -    Multi-core systems -    Peer-to-peer computing -    GPUs and other forms of special purpose processors -    Service computing and workflow management -    Managing large distributed data sets -    Middleware and tools -    Performance evaluation and modeling -    Interconnection networks -    Performance accelerators -    Problem-solving environments -    Parallel programming models, languages and compilers -    Runtime systems -    Operating systems -    Resource scheduling and load balancing -    Data mining -    Computational Science and Engineering -    Agent-based computing -    Reliability, security, privacy and dependability -    Applications and e-Science