The PaCT 2005 (Parallel Computing Technologies) conference was a four-day conference held in Krasnoyarsk, September 5 9, 2005. This was the Eighth - ternational conference in the PaCT series. The conferences are held in R- sia every odd year. The ?rst conference, PaCT 91, was held in Novosibirsk (Academgorodok), September 7 11, 1991. The next PaCT conferences were held in Obninsk (near Moscow), August 30 September 4, 1993, in St. Pete- burg, September 12 15, 1995, in Yaroslavl, September, 9 12 1997, in Pushkin (near St. Petersburg) September, 6 10 1999, in Academgorodok (Novosibirsk),...