The 5th Pan-Galactic BOINC Workshop

A workshop on volunteer computing and BOINC will be held 22-23 October 2009, at the ​Catalan Academy of Letters, Sciencies and Humanities in Barcelona, Spain. ​Map

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

Who should attend

This year's workshop will be smaller and with a more technical focus than in previous years. Areas of interest include:

• GPU and multi-thread applications; CUDA and OpenCL
• Virtual machines as application container
• Genetic optimization algorithms for volunteer computing
• Scheduling goals and policies
• High-level job submission interfaces: workflows and master/worker systems
• Integrating BOINC with clouds and grids
• Desktop grid computing with BOINC
• Data compression in BOINC transfers

All participants will present and discuss their work. Slides will be published on the web, but there will be no papers or proceedings.

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=)?, indicating your areas of interest.

Tentative attendees:

probable:
Adam Kornafeld (SZTAKI)
Bahman Javadi (INRIA)
Ben Segal (CERN)
Bernd Machenschalk
Bill Bovermann (IBM)
Bruce Allen (MPI)
Christian Beer
Daniel Lombraña (U Ext)
David Anderson (UCB)
David Quintas (CERN)
Derrick Kondo (INRIA)
Eric Korpela (UCB)
Gianni De Fabritiis (UPF)
Issal Al-Azzoni (INRIA)
Jarno Rantala (CERN)
Jeremy Cowles (UC Berkeley)
Jordi Portell (IEEC/UB)
Kevin Reed (IBM)
Malek Smaoui (UH)
Marc Garbey (UH)
Reinhard Prix (MPI)
Michael Weber
Martin Bertheau
Nico Mittenzwey
Nicolas Maire (Swiss Tropical Institute)
Oliver Bock (MPI)
Paco de Vega (U Ext)
Travis Desell (RPI)
Zoltan Balaton (SZTAKI)
Zoltan Farkas (SZTAKI)

possible:
Kamran Karimi (D-Wave)
Uwe Beckert
Jack Schultz
Andrey Voronkov

Recreation

As usual, there will be a hike the day after the workshop (24 Oct). Possible destination: ​Montserrat. Alternative destination: ​Santuari de Núria (Pyrenees), arriving by train to Queralbs (~3h walking, ~800m uneveness, fairly easy).

Hotels

Cheap hotels near the conference:

​Hotel Curious (50m from conference; free Wi-Fi and breakfast; 80€/night)

Hotel Inglés, Barcelona (70€/night)

Hotel Canton (72€/night)

Residencia La Ciutadella Precios: E65 single, E86.50 double