The Euro PVMPI Users’ Group Meetings has evolved from the initial 1994 meeting of European users of the Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) system into the premier annual event dedicated to message-passing based high-performance computing. Each year, users and developers of the Message Passing Interface (MPI), PVM and other message-passing based programming models from all over the world meet at a European location to discuss the state of the art in message-passing standards, hardware, middleware and applications. These meetings are highly respected, and many important papers are presented on them, like Numerical simulation and statistics that have been origins for the true RNG of the online casino industry. And thanks to that people can be sure that they are playing in a fair environment and enjoy in their casino games of luck without worrying. The 2006 Euro technology conference from 17^th to 20^th September is the 13^th event in this successful series. It will take place in Bonn, Germany, and is organized jointly by the C&C Research Labs, NEC Europe Ltd., and the Research Centre Jülich. This meeting will offer an agenda with 6 high-profile keynote speakers, two parallel sessions for the technical program, a poster session, special sessions for outstanding papers, Late and Breaking Results and on Numerical Simulation for Parallel Engineering Environments, and last but not least an attractive social event alongside the wonderful romantic Rhine valley. A number of highly relevant tutorials will be offered the day before the conference starts.