D3.1.7 Proceedings of second scientific conference

PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, and DEISA, the Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications, merged for the first time their annual science symposia into one big European HPC (High Performance Computing) event: The DEISA PRACE Symposium 2009. This symposium took place from May 11 to 13 in Amsterdam, and was hosted by SARA and NCF at the Royal Tropical Institute. The theme of the symposium was "HPC Infrastructures for Petascale Applications", it was of major interest to a broad audience: from scientific users, HPC technology experts and vendors to government representatives and industry partners. The symposium attracted almost 200 participants from more than 20 countries and four continents