The 7th BOINC Workshop

A workshop on BOINC and volunteer computing will be held 18-19 August 2011 in Hannover, Germany.

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, and to guide the future development of BOINC.

The workshop is for researchers, scientists and developers with significant experience or interest in BOINC. Areas of interest include:

• GPU and multi-thread applications; CUDA and OpenCL
• Virtual machines as application container
• Multi-user projects
• Remote job submission
• Integration with hubs, clouds, grids, and desktop grids
• OpenID

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

The workshop will be co-located with a meeting of the ​International Desktop Grid Federation, which will take place on 17 August. Workshop participants are encouraged to consider attending this as well.

Venue

The workshop will be held at the ​Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Hannover, Germany. Directions are ​here.
Warning: The Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics has TWO locations, one in Hannover and one in Golm (near Berlin). Do NOT travel to the Golm (near Berlin) location for this meeting, or you'll find yourself a 200km away from where you should be, in Hannover!

Registration

The workshop is free but attendance is limited. If you are interested in attending, or have any questions, please contact David Anderson, indicating your areas of interest.

Talks

All participants are encouraged to give a short (~20 min) talk describing their work with BOINC. Please send your talk title to David Anderson.

Attendees

• Bruce Allen, Max Planck Institute
• David Anderson, UC Berkeley
• Uwe Beckert, ​Rechenkraft.net e.V.
• Christian Beer, ​Rechenkraft.net e.V.
• Oliver Bock, Max Planck Institute
• Francisco Brasiliero
• David Coss, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
• Fernando Costa, Univ. of Coimbra
• Travis Desell, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• Zoltan Farkas, SZTAKI
• Dario Ferrer, U. of Zaragoza
• Pablo Fonseca, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Peter Hanappe, Sony Research
• Thomas Hilbig, University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld
• Evgeny Ivashko, Russian Academy of Sciences
• Peter Kacsuk, SZTAKI
• Ian Kelley, U. of Cardiff
• Arnaud Legrand, INRIA
• Robert Lovas, SZTAKI
• Bernd Machenschalk, Max Planck Institute
• Natalia Nikitina, Russian Academy of Sciences
• Steffen Moeller
• Kevin Reed, IBM
• Christian Benjamin Ries, University of Applied Sciences, Bielefeld
• Alejandro Rivero, Ibercivis
• Francisco Sanz, Ibercivis
• Ben Segal, CERN
• Jaspal Subhlok, University of Houston
• Michael Tarantino, Univ. of Basel
• Rom Walton, UC Berkeley
• Simon Wilson, UK Met Office

Hackfest

The 2nd day of the workshop will be a "hackfest", in which we divide into groups and try to get something working, write code, or write documentation. Possible hackfest goals include:

• Features related to multi-user projects, bag-of-task scheduling, and remote job submission
• Bring BOINC up to speed on Ubuntu
  • One-click installation
  • Client started at boot time
  • Screensaver
• Create a "cookbook" for deploying virtual machine apps
• Create a "cookbook" for deploying OpenCL apps
• Design BOINC for Android, and implement some part of it
• Get a demo of Attic (P2P file distribution) working

Accommodations

A list of recommended hotels.

Before and after

Traditionally there is a hike the day after the workshop (i.e., Sat 20 Aug). I don't know if there are any trails near Hannover, but we'll do our best.

Also, I'll be in Hannover from Tues 16 Aug to at least Tues 23 Aug, and will be available for additional discussion and/or hacking.