Canada's high performance computing (HPC) community are converging in Toronto for the High Performance Computing Symposium (HPCS) 2010. Hosted by SciNet this year, Canada's foremost HPC conference takes place at the University of Toronto, June 5 to 9.

HPCS is a multidisciplinary conference where computational researchers from all disciplines in industry and academia, computer scientists, and vendors exchange new tools, techniques and interesting results in and for HPC computational research.

HPC resources help solve highly complex problems, generate new knowledge, perform business critical analyses, or run computationally intensive workloads in a scale far beyond the tasks that could be achieved on today's leading desktop systems.

HPCS attendees will hear from Compute/Calcul Canada, the national organization that coordinates HPC resources at seven partner consortia across the country to create a dynamic national computational resource.

High-profile figures in the Canadian research community, such as Suzanne Fortier, president of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), will address delegates.

ORION, which provides the enabling infrastructure for Ontario's HPC facilities and consortia, which includes SHARCNET, HPCVL and SciNet, is a gold sponsor of HPCS 2010.

Registration is open to the research and education community, as well as business and industry, who want to learn more about the current state and future direction of HPC technologies and their capabilities. To register, visit www.hpcs2010.org.