HPCO 2013: Message from the Workshop Chairs
2013 Eighth International Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing · 2013
High-performance computing is very important for optimization.Large practical optimization problems unsolvable with a single computer due to the limited time always exist.Therefore, high-performance computers and distributed computing systems are very helpful.On the other hand optimization is helpful to high-performance computing in a broader scope allowing efficient exploitation of resources.The Workshop on High-Performance Computing and Optimization aims to bring together researchers interested in both high-performance computing and optimization to discuss recent trend in the area.We have encourage contributions in topics as parallel and distributed optimization algorithms, parallel global optimization, parallel branch and bound, parallel metaheuristics, parallel multicriteria optimization, hierarchical optimization algorithms, efficient exploitation of parallel and distributed systems, optimization for cloud resource management, and applications of parallel and distributed optimization.We have accepted 8 papers with topics spanning from parallel evolutionary algorithms to parallel branch and bound.We would like to thank the organizing committee of 8th International Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing (3PGCIC 2013) for giving us the opportunity to organize the workshop.We would also like to thank program committee members, reviewers, participants as well as co-authors of contributions to the workshop.