The fifth HPC Status Conference of the Gauß-Allianz took place from December 14th to December 15th at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften in Bad Homburg and was organized by the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. The target audience of the conference was the High Performance Computing community in Germany. The conference focused on projects, which have been funded by the BMBF as part of the HPC Software Call, and nearly all projects of this BMBF funding initiative presented and discussed their interim results. The FAST project presented the integration of the batch environment Slurm with the agent-based environment and the mechanisms for transparent process migration developed in FAST.