This Festschrift volume is published in honor of Gunter Haring on the occasion of his emerital celebration and contains invited papers by key researchers in the field of performance evaluation presented at the workshop Performance Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems - Milestones and Future Challenges, PERFORM 2010, held in Vienna, Austria, in October 2010. Gunter Haring has dedicated most of his scientific professional life to performance evaluation and the design of distributed systems, contributing in particular to the field of workload characterization. In addition to his own contributions and leadership in international research projects, he is and has been an excellent mentor of young researchers demonstrated by their own brilliant scientific careers. The 20 thoroughly refereed papers range from visionary to in-depth research papers and are organized in the following topical sections: milestones and evolutions; trends: green ICT and virtual machines; modeling; mobility and mobile networks; communication and computer networks; and load balancing, analysis, and management.

Moderne Hochleistungsrechner mit akzeptablem Programmieraufwand effizient zu nutzen, erfordert eine hAhere Programmiersprache. High Performance Fortran (HPF), ein De-facto-Standard im Bereich des Hochleistungsrechnens, ermAglicht die Programmierung von Parallelrechnern auf einer sehr hohen und damit benutzerfreundlichen Abstraktionsebene bei gleichzeitiger Erzielung hoher Laufzeiteffizienz.
Das vorliegende Buch gibt eine EinfA1/4hrung in den Bereich des Hochleistungsrechnens und beschreibt den aktuellen Stand der Entwicklungen bei HPF. Es bietet Programmierern von Hochleistungsrechnern und Anwendern paralleler numerischer Algorithmen eine unentbehrliche UnterstA1/4tzung bei der Verwendung von HPF.