Canadian Supercomputing Conference Needs a Logo

This is what HPCS 2014 (the 2014 is optional but if there, should be able to be changed to 2015, etc) was looking for in their logo design

We need a logo for HPCS, our annual Canadian High Performance Computing conference, the annual meeting of everyone in Canada who works on really, really big computers.

We need it for HPCS 2014, but would like something that could be re-used in the coming years. The logo should feel modern, professional, high-tech, and, preferably, be immediately identifiable as Canadian. Easiest way to do this would be to incorporate the maple leaf. The worst way to do this would be to include a beaver. Don't include a beaver.

CDMN has a fantastic logo (http://www.cdmn.ca) that has the right feel. They'd probably frown on us stealing it though.

Text accompanying the logo can be "HPCS 2014" or "HPCS" or even nothing at all. If no text, please suggest what title font I should use when incorporating the logo into materials. If using "2014" as part of the logo, it should be in such a way that it is easily changed in subsequent years. Read more