The DEISA (Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications) consortium will hold a symposium on the outreach of high performance computing in Europe on 21 and 22 of May in Munich, Germany. This year, the DEISA Symposium focuses on the initiatives and strategies that will pave the way towards petascale computing in Europe. The event brings together academic and research communities, policy makers and business players from across Europe, offering a forum for interaction with DEISA, developers of the HPC (High Performance Computing) and Grid infrastructures. For more information, please visit: https://www.deisa.org/news_events/deisa_events/current_event.php