International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS) 2014 : 21 25 July 2014 Bologna Italy ; 12th annual meeting ; [including workshops] Annotation The conference is to address explore and exchange information on the state of the art in high performance and large scale computing systems their use in modeling and simulation and data intensive applications Works on Clouds multi core Clusters and Grids reconfigurable processors are of interest as is use of special purpose hardware such as GPGPU s the conference covers hardware and software algorithms and applications