High Performance Computing - HiPC 2008 : 15th International Conference

at the distributed virtual Program Committee meeting. Each papers review recomm- dationswere carefully checkedfor consistency; in many instances, the Vice Chairs read the papers themselves when the reviews did not seem suf?cient to make a decision. Throughout the reviewing process, I received a tremendous amount of help and advice from General Co-chair Manish Parashar, Steering Chair Viktor Prasanna, and last years Program Chair Srinivas Aluru; I am very grateful to them. My thanks also go to the Publications Chair Sushil Prasad for his outstanding efforts in putting the proceedings together. Finally, I thank all the authors for their contributions to a hi- quality technical program. I wish all the attendees a very enjoyable and informative meeting. December 2008 P. Sadayappan Message from the General Co-chairs and the Vice General Co-chairs On behalf of the organizers of the 15th International Conference on High-Performance Computing(HiPC), it is our pleasureto present these proceedingsand we hopeyou will ?nd them exciting and rewarding. TheHiPCcallforpapers, onceagain, receivedanoverwhelmingresponse, attracting 317submissionsfrom27countries.P.Sadayappan, theProgramChair, andthe Program Committee worked with remarkablededication to put together an outstandingtechnical program consisting of the 46 papers that appear in these proceedings.