Euro-Par is an annual series of international conferences dedicated to the p- motion and
advancementof allaspects of parallelcomputing. The major themes can be divided into four broad
categories: theory high-performance cluster and grid
distributedandmobilecomputing.Thesecategoriescomprise14topicsthat focus on particular issues.
The objective of Euro-Paris to provide a forum within which to promote the development of
parallel computing both as an industrial technique and an a- demic discipline 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 researchers inacademicdepartments governmentlaboratories
andindustrialorganizations. Euro-Par2010 was the 16th conference in the Euro-Parseries and was
or- nizedbythe Institute forHigh-PerformanceComputingandNetworking(ICAR) of the Italian
National Research Council (CNR) in Ischia Italy. Previous Euro-
ParconferencestookplaceinStockholm Lyon Passau Southampton Toulouse Munich Manchester
Padderborn Klagenfurt Pisa Lisbon Dresden Rennes Las Palmas and Delft. Next year the
conference will take place in Bordeaux France. More information on the Euro-Par conference
series and organization is available on the wesite As mentioned before the conference was
organized in 14 topics. The paper review process for each topic was managed and supervised by a
committee of at least four persons: a Global Chair a Local Chair and two members. Some
speci?c topics with a high number of submissions were managed by a larger
committeewithmoremembers.The?naldecisionsontheacceptanceorrejection ofthesubmitted
papersweremadein ameeting ofthe ConferenceCo-chairsand Local Chairs of the topics.
