[Beowulf] [PCGrid 2007] call for participation: workshop on desktop grids

[Derrick Kondo]

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
(see advance program below)

WORKSHOP ON LARGE-SCALE, VOLATILE DESKTOP GRIDS (PCGRID 2007)
held in conjunction with the
IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS)
March 30, 2007
Long Beach, California U.S.A.
http://pcgrid07.lri.fr

Desktop grids utilize the free resources available in Intranet or
Internet environments for supporting large-scale computation and
storage. For over a decade, desktop grids have been one of the largest
and most powerful distributed computing systems in the world, offering
a high return on investment for applications from a wide range of
scientific domains (including computational biology, climate
prediction, and high-energy physics).  While desktop grids sustain up
to Teraflops/second of computing power from hundreds of thousands to
millions of resources, fully leveraging the platform's computational
power is still a major challenge because of the immense scale, high
volatility, and extreme heterogeneity of such systems.

The purpose of the workshop is to provide a forum for discussing recent
advances and identifying open issues for the development of scalable,
fault-tolerant, and secure desktop grid systems.  The workshop seeks to
bring desktop grid researchers together from theoretical, system, and
application areas to identify plausible approaches for supporting
applications with a range of complexity and requirements on desktop
environments.


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ADVANCE PROGRAM

(In each session below, the following list of papers will be presented.
For the detailed schedule, see http://pcgrid07.lri.fr/program.html)

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KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
David P. Anderson,
Director of BOINC and SETI at home,
University of California at Berkeley

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SESSION I: SYSTEMS

Invited Paper: Open Internet-based Sharing for Desktop Grids in iShare
Xiaojuan Ren, Purdue University, U.S.A.
Ayon Basumallik, Purdue University, U.S.A.
Zhelong Pan, VMWare, Inc., U.S.A.
Rudolf Eigenmann, Purdue University, U.S.A.

Invited Paper: Decentralized Dynamic Host Configuration in Wide-area
Overlay Networks of Virtual Workstations
Arijit Ganguly, University of Florida, U.S.A.
David I. Wolinsky, University of Florida, U.S.A.
P. Oscar Boykin, University of Florida, U.S.A.
Renato J. Figueiredo, University of Florida, U.S.A.

SZTAKI Desktop Grid: a Modular and Scalable Way of Building Large
Computing Grids
Zoltan Balaton, MTA SZTAKI Research Institute, Hungary
Gabor Gombas, MTA SZTAKI Research Institute, Hungary
Peter Kacsuk, MTA SZTAKI Research Institute, Hungary
Adam Kornafeld, MTA SZTAKI Research Institute, Hungary
Jozsef Kovacs, MTA SZTAKI Research Institute, Hungary
Attila Csaba Marosi, MTA SZTAKI Research Institute, Hungary
Gabor Vida, MTA SZTAKI Research Institute, Hungary
Norbert Podhorszki, UC Davis, U.S.A.
Tamas Kiss, University of Westminster, U.K.

Direct Execution of Linux Binary on Windows for Grid RPC Workers
Yoshifumi Uemura, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Yoshihiro Nakajima, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Mitsuhisa Sato, University of Tsukuba, Japan

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SESSION II: SCHEDULING AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Local Scheduling for Volunteer Computing
David Anderson, UC Berkeley, U.S.A.
John McLeod VII, Sybase, Inc., U.S.A.

Moving Volunteer Computing towards Knowledge-Constructed,
Dynamically-Adaptive Modeling and Scheduling
Michela Taufer, University of Texas at El Paso, U.S.A.
Andre Kerstens, University of Texas at El Paso, U.S.A.
Trilce Estrada, University of Texas at El Paso, U.S.A.
David Flores, University of Texas at El Paso, U.S.A.
Richard Zamudio, University of Texas at El Paso, U.S.A.
Patricia Teller, University of Texas at El Paso, U.S.A.
Roger Armen, The Scripps Research Institute, U.S.A.
Charles L. Brooks III, The Scripps Research Institute, U.S.A.

Proxy-based Grid Information Dissemination
Deger Erdil, State University of New York at Binghamton, U.S.A.
Michael Lewis, State University of New York at Binghamton, U.S.A.
Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, State University of New York at Binghamton, U.S.A.

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SESSION III: DATA-INTENSIVE APPLICATIONS AND DISTRIBUTED STORAGE

Challenges in Executing Data Intensive Biometric Workloads on a Desktop
Grid
Christopher Moretti, University of Notre Dame, U.S.A.
Timothy Faltemier, University of Notre Dame, U.S.A.
Douglas Thain, University of Notre Dame, U.S.A.
Patrick Flynn, University of Notre Dame, U.S.A.

Invited Paper: Storage at home: Petascale Distributed Storage
Adam L. Beberg, Stanford University, U.S.A.
Vijay Pande, Stanford University, U.S.A.

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SESSION IV: THEORY

Applying IC-Scheduling Theory to Familiar Classes of Computations
Gennaro Cordasco, University of Salerno, Italy
Grzegorz Malewicz, Google, Inc., U.S.A.
Arnold Rosenberg, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, U.S.A.

Invited Paper: A Combinatorial Model for Self-Organizing Networks
Yuri Dimitrov, Ohio State University, U.S.A.
Gennaro Mango, Ohio State University, U.S.A.
Carlo Giovine, Ohio State University, U.S.A.
Mario Lauria, Ohio State University, U.S.A.

Invited Paper: Towards Contracts & SLA in Large Scale Clusters & Desktops
Grids
Denis Caromel, INRIA, France
Francoise Baude, INRIA, France
Alexandre di Costanzo, INRIA, France
Christian Delbe, INRIA, France
Mario Leyton, INRIA, France

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ORGANIZATION

General Chairs
Derrick Kondo, INRIA Futurs, France
Franck Cappello, INRIA Futurs, France

Program Chair
Gilles Fedak, INRIA Futurs, France