The 8th BOINC Workshop

A workshop on BOINC and volunteer computing will be held 27–28 September 2012 in London, England.

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

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 the ​18th workshop of the ​International Desktop Grid Federation (IDGF). Workshop participants are encouraged to consider attending this as well.

Venue

University of Westminster
115 New Cavendish Street
London, W1W 6UW
Room CG.03 (Cavendish building, ground floor)

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.

Accommodations

You can find a range of hotel options on ​http://booking.com. Some attendees are staying at the St. Athans Hotel, 20-24 Tavistock Place, Bloomsbury.

Schedule

The workshop will consist of two activities:

• Talks: All participants are encouraged to give a short (~20 min) talk describing their activities and plans related to volunteer computing. These talks do not have to be polished or present results. Please send your talk title to David Anderson.

• Hackfest: On the 2nd day of the workshop we'll divide into small groups, each of which will try to advance some aspect of BOINC. All attendees should sign up for one or more groups, and should come prepared to contribute.

Thursday 27 Sept

• 9:30 - 9:45: Opening remarks and introductions
• 9:45 - 11:15: talks
  • Oliver/Bernd/Heinz?: Einstein@home
  • Wenjing: CAS@home
  • Travis Desell

coffee break

• 11:30 - 12:30: talks
  • Andy Bowery: CPDN
  • David Coss

lunch

• 13:30 - 15:30: talks
  • GPUGrid
  • Joachim
  • Mark McAndrew?
  • Melissa/Michael?: malaria

coffee break

• 15:45 - 17:45: talks
  • Fermin: Ibercivis
  • Tamas: Westminster
  • Anderson: BOINC status report

Friday 28 Sept

• 9:30 - 11:15: hackfest, part 1

coffee break

• 11:30 - 12:30: hackfest, part 1

lunch

• 13:30 - 15:30: hackfest, part 2

coffee break

• 15:45 - 17:00: hackfest, part 2
• 17:00 - 18:00: hackfest presentations and wind-up

Attendees (tentative)

1. David Anderson, UC Berkeley
2. Christian Beer, Rechenkraft.net (NPO)
3. Oliver Bock, Max Planck Inst.
4. Andy Bowery, Oxford
5. David Coss, St. Jude Hospital
6. Travis Desell, Univ. of North Dakota
7. Heinz-Bernd Eggenstein, Max Planck Inst.
8. Gianni De Fabritiis, GPUGrid.net
9. Dario Ferrer, U. of Westminster
10. Joachim Fritzsch, TU Dresden
11. Mohammadmersad Ghorbani (Brunel Univ.)
12. Peter Hanappe, Sony Research
13. Matt Harvey, GPUGrid.net
14. Peter Kacsuk, SZTAKI / IDGF
15. Derrick Kondo, INRIA
16. Arnaud Legrand, INRIA
17. Robert Lovas, SZTAKI / IDGF
18. Mark McAndrew, Charity Engine
19. Bernd Machenschalk, Max Planck Inst.
20. Jonathan Miller, Oxford
21. Melissa Penny, Swiss Tropical Institute
22. Francisco Sanz, BIFI
23. Fermin Serrano, Ibercivis
24. Michael Tarantino, Swiss Tropical Institute
25. Wenjing WU, IHEP

Before and after

26 September

Afternoon: ​18th workshop of the International Desktop Grid Forum (IDGF); same venue

29 September

All day: hike and/or rural pub crawl; details TBD