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The following topics are dealt with: heterogeneity in computing workshop; reconfigurable architectures workshop; high-level parallel programming models and supportive environments; nature inspired distributed computing; high performance computational biology; advances in parallel and distributed computing models; parallel algorithms; distributed algorithms; communication architecture for scalable systems; high-performance power aware computing; high-performance grid and cloud computing; security and trust of distributed networking systems; dependable parallel, distributed and network-centric systems; multithreaded architectures and applications; large-scale parallel processing; accelerators and hybrid exascale systems; Parlearning; high performance data intensive computing; Cloudflow; large scale distributed service-oriented systems; GPU programming models; and multicore programming models.