In the first week of January 2014 Schloss Dagstuhl hosted a Perspectives Workshop on “Connecting Performance Analysis and Visualization to Advance Extreme Scale Computing”. The workshop brought together two previously separate communities – from Visualization and Performance Analysis for High Performance Computing – to discuss a long term joint research agenda. The goal was to identify and address the challenges in using visual representations to understand and optimize the performance of extreme-scale applications running on today's most powerful computing systems like climate modeling, combustion, material science or astro-physics simulations.