The 4th Pan-Galactic BOINC Workshop

A workshop on BOINC will be held 11-12 September 2007 in Geneva, Switzerland. It is being hosted by INRIA. The organizers are David Anderson (UCB) and Derrick Kondo (INRIA).

The workshop follows the First, Second and Third BOINC Workshops.

The objective of this workshop is to share information about BOINC and projects running on BOINC through short presentations and informal discussions, in a relaxed, open and friendly atmosphere. The workshop aims to stimulate new developments and activities related to BOINC, by allowing users to share their experience and requirements, giving developers the opportunity to outline their plans, and stimulating new collaborations between participants.

Who should attend

Anyone who is actively involved with BOINC is encouraged to attend. This includes anyone operating a BOINC project, developing BOINC, deploying BOINC, or interested in volunteer computing.

Agenda (tentative)

• 10 Sept (optional)
  • 9:00-17:30: Tutorial and hands-on help session. BOINC experts will be on hand to help new projects. This may take the form of a tutorial or a hack-a-thon, depending on participant needs. If you are interested in attending this, please inform the organizers.

• 11 Sept
  • 9:00-12:30: Presentations by current and planned BOINC projects and deployment activities. Attendees are encouraged to give talks summarizing their project status, goals, and technical issues and requirements (20 minutes; a video projector will be available).
  • 14:00-17:30: Continuation of project presentations

• 12 Sept
  • 9:00-10:45: Progress report from the BOINC project.
  • 11:00-12:30: Parallel meetings of special-interest groups (topics to be determined).
  • 14:00-15:30: Parallel meetings of special-interest groups (topics to be determined).
  • 15:45-17:30: Summaries of special-interest group discussions, and general discussion.

• 13 Sept (optional)
  • Alpine hiking

Registration

The workshop is free but attendance is limited. If you are interested in attending, or have any questions, please email David Anderson|k=01o5RAw95mV48kf6x-NVERig==&c=RSUgx-KG3aii0O1aEHoRwV0obvhd9SciJkpE21FkRJ0=)? or any of the other organizers.

Logistics

TBD

Discussion topics

Possible discussion topics (feel free to append):

• Defragmenting BOINC documentation

• Multithreaded and coprocessor apps

• Use of mobile devices (cell phones, PDAs, media players)

• Social networks and BOINC

• Distributed thinking and education

• Recruitment; publicity; teams

• Scheduler: handling diverse workloads; HR

• Use of VM technology for apps

• Simplify app dev, the wrapper, master/worker, etc.

• Apps in Java, Python, Lisp

• BOINC and Grids

• Web features; Preferences system (including project specific settings)

• How to keep server software up to date; other project management issues

• Security

• Credit: normalization, generalization