The purpose of this workshop is to present and discuss the state-of-the-art in implementing high-performance services with applications in different domains, such as environment, climate, chemistry, physics, biology, cultural heritage etc. The contributions should focus on applications needing high-performance computing, physical modeling of large-scale problems, and the development of scalable algorithms for solving large scale problems on modern parallel and distributed high-performance computing platforms, including multicore architectures, GPGPUs/GPUs, and clusters. Scalability studies of complex computing codes on HPC platforms and the tools and development environments facilitating improved scalability are also among the expected contributions. Furthermore, during the workshop the participants will have the opportunity to discuss and share the latest research in parallel and distributed high performance computing systems applied to scientific and technical problems. The emphasis of this workshop will be on running complex realistic applications at sustained performance in production-grade HPC environments but also on the transfer of HPC expertise toward industry, particularly SMEs. Learn more at http://synasc.ro/2016/hpc-st-2016/