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The 10th BOINC Workshop

A workshop on BOINC and volunteer computing will be held 29 Sept - 2 Oct at the SZTAKI Institute in Budapest, Hungary.

The objective of this workshop is to share information about BOINC and projects using it, through presentations and informal discussions, in an 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:

  • BOINC on Android
  • GPU, multi-thread, VM-based, and Android applications
  • Data-intensive applications
  • 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.

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.

Venue

The workshop will be held at

SZTAKI Institute
18-22 Victor Hugo St.
Budapest 1132

Information about transportation and lodging is here: http://www.lpds.sztaki.hu/lpds/contact

The Institute is convenient to public transportation, hotels, and the historic center of Budapest. Many thanks to Peter Kacsuk and Robert Lovas for making the venue available to us.

Schedule

The workshop will consist of two activities:

  • Talks: All participants are encouraged to give a short (20-30 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 and 3rd days of the workshop we'll divide into groups, to hack, document, discuss or learn some aspect of BOINC. Please come with ideas.

To allow more time for hackfest projects, we're extending the workshop to 4 days. However, you're welcome to attend only the first 2 or 3 days.

Monday 29 Sept

  • 9:30 - 12:00: talks
    • Robert Lovas: Introductory remarks
    • David Anderson: A Brief History of BOINC
  • 13:00 - 15:00: talks
    • Ivgeny Ivashko: BOINC:FAST conference: results and plans
    • Rom Walton: Support for VM applications
    • Robert Lovas
  • 15:30 - 17:30: talks
    • Christian Beer: The future of Rechenkraft.net e.V.
    • Matt Blumberg: Greetings from GridRepublic?!
    • Yuri Gordienko: Trends in computing power used by various BOINC communities
    • Valter Cavecchia: TN-Grid & gene@home

Tuesday 30 Sept

  • 9:00 - 12:00: talks
    • Travis Desell: Wildlife@home
    • Mark McAndrew: Charity Engine
    • Keith Uplinger: World Community Grid
    • Filip Rydio: Possible Optimizations of Large Recurrent Neural Networks in CUDA
  • 13:00 - 15:00: talks
    • Thomas Mielke: Techniques for Rapidly Integrating, Computing, and Analyzing Scientific Models with Heterogenous Grid Systems
    • Wenjing Wu: Atlas@home
    • Bruce Allen: Einstein@Home
  • 15:30 - 17:30: discussion of volunteer computing and BOINC; plan hackfest projects.

Wednesday 1 Oct

  • 9:00 - 17:00: hackfest

Thursday 2 Oct

  • 9:00 - 17:00: hackfest

Attendees (tentative)

  1. Bruce Allen, Max Planck Institute
  2. David Anderson, UC Berkeley
  3. Tomi Asp, CERN
  4. Nicolas Baldeck, Open Meteo Foundation
  5. Christian Beer, Rechenkraft.net (RNA World)
  6. Matt Blumberg, GridRepublic
  7. Andy Bowery, Oxford
  8. Valter Cavecchia, CNR-IMEM, TN-Grid
  9. Claire Adam Bourdarios, CERN
  10. Travis Desell, U. North Dakota
  11. Philip Fowler, Oxford (maybe)
  12. Francisco Sanz García, Bifi
  13. Yuri Gordienko, NAS Ukraine
  14. Nikita Gordienko, NAS Ukraine
  15. Evgeny Ivashko, Karelian Resarch Centre RAS
  16. Peter Jones, CERN
  17. Arnaud Legrand, INRIA
  18. Attila Marosii, SZTAKI
  19. Mark McAndrew, Charity Engine
  20. Thomas Mielke, MindModeling@Home
  21. Jonathan Miller, Oxford
  22. Filip Rydio, Asteroids@home
  23. Rytis Slatkevičius, GridRepublic
  24. Keith Uplinger, IBM
  25. TBD, IBM
  26. David Wallom, Oxford
  27. Rom Walton, UC Berkeley
  28. Wenjing Wu, IHEP

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