A nearby conference that people in cloud/hpc/parallelism may be interested in. (20-22nd February 2017. Wellington, New Zealand) Multicore World 2017, an initiative of Open Parallel, is a significant high technology event hosted within Australasia. Now in it's sixth consecutive year, and presenting a unique line-up of some of the most respected speakers in their field from around the World, MW2017 offers an informal environment with an emphasis on interaction and the value of information exchange between peers. Those attending this global think-tank hold senior executive and/or trend setting technologist and scientific roles within their respective organisations. Scheduled international keynotes & speakers are: Prof Michael Kelly (U Cambridge, UK), John Gustafson (A*Star, Singapore), Prof Tony Hey (STFC, UK), Happy Sithole (CHPC, South Africa), Pete Beckman (Argonne, US), Prof Michelle Simmons (UNSW, Australia), Dave Jaggar (fmr ARM, NZ), Paul McKenney (IBM, US), Prof Shaun Hendy (U Auckland, NZ), Anshu Dubey (U Berkeley, US), Prof Bruce Mellado (U Witwatersrand, South Africa), Victoria MacLennan (Optimal BI, NZ), Prof Andreas Wicenec (ICRAR, Australia), Nathan DeBardeleben (LANL, US), Paul Fenwick (Perl, Australia), Mark Moir (Oracle, US) & another 15+ distinguished speakers. http://www.multicoreworld.com/ -- Lev Lafayette, BA (Hons), GradCertTerAdEd (Murdoch), GradCertPM, MBA (Tech Mngmnt) (Chifley) mobile: 0432 255 208 RFC 1855 Netiquette Guidelines http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt -- Lev Lafayette, BA (Hons), GradCertTerAdEd (Murdoch), GradCertPM, MBA (Tech Mngmnt) (Chifley) mobile: 0432 255 208 RFC 1855 Netiquette Guidelines http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt