CALL FOR PAPERS Fifth Workshop on Desktop Grids and Volunteer Computing Systems (PCGrid 2011) held in conjunction with the IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) May 16-20, 2011 Submission deadline: November 1, 2010 Anchorage, Alaska, USA web site: http://pcgrid.imag.fr/ Keynote speaker Prof. Henri Casanova University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA ###################################################################### *********************** CALL FOR PAPERS *********************** OVERVIEW/SCOPE: Desktop grids and volunteer computing systems (DGVCS's) utilize the free resources available in Intranet or Internet environments for supporting large-scale computation and storage. For over a decade, DGVCS's have been one of the largest and most powerful distributed computing systems in the world, offering a high return on investment for applications from a wide range of scientific domains (including computational biology, climate prediction, and high-energy physics). While DGVCS's sustain up to PetaFLOPS of computing power from hundreds of thousands to millions of resources, fully leveraging the platform's computational power is still a major challenge because of the immense scale, high volatility, and extreme heterogeneity of such systems. The purpose of the workshop is to provide a forum for discussing recent advances and identifying open issues for the development of scalable, fault-tolerant, and secure DGVCS's. The workshop seeks to bring desktop grid researchers together from theoretical, system, and application areas to identify plausible approaches for supporting applications with a range of complexity and requirements on desktop environments. This year's workshop will have special emphasis on DGCVS's relationship and integration with Clouds. We invite submissions on DGVCS topics including the following: - cloud computing over unreliable enterprise or Internet resources - DGVCS middleware and software infrastructure (including management), with emphasis on virtual machines - incorporation of DGVCS's with Grid infrastructures - DGVCS programming environments and models - modeling, simulation, and emulation of large-scale, volatile environments - resource management and scheduling - resource measurement and characterization - novel DGVCS applications - data management (strategies, protocols, storage) - security on DGVCS's (reputation systems, result verification) - fault-tolerance on shared, volatile resources - peer-to-peer (P2P) algorithms or systems applied to DGVCS's With regard to the last topic, we strongly encourage authors of P2P-related paper submissions to emphasize the applicability to DGVCS's in order to be within the scope of the workshop. The workshop proceedings will be published through the IEEE Computer Society Press as part of the IPDPS CD-ROM. ###################################################################### IMPORTANT DATES Manuscript submission deadline: November 1, 2010 Acceptance Notification: December 28, 2010 Camera-ready paper deadline: February 14, 2011 Workshop: May 20, 2011 ###################################################################### SUBMISSIONS Manuscripts will be evaluated based on their originality, technical strength, quality of presentation, and relevance to the workshop scope. Only manuscripts that have neither appeared nor been submitted previously for publication are allowed. Authors are invited to submit a manuscript of up to 8 pages in IEEE format (10pt font, two-columns, single-spaced). The procedure for electronic submissions will be posted at: http://pcgrid.imag.fr/submission.html ##################################################################### ORGANIZATION General Chairs Derrick Kondo, INRIA, France Gilles Fedak, INRIA, France Program Chair Eric Heien, University of California, Davis, USA Program Committee David Abramson, Monash University, Australia David Anderson, University of California at Berkeley, USA Artur Andrzejak, Zuse Institute of Berlin, Germany Filipe Araujo, University of Coimbra, Portugal Henri Bal, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands Zoltan Balaton, SZTAKI, Hungary Adam Beberg, Stanford University, USA Francisco Brasileiro, Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil Massimo Canonico, University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy Henri Casanova, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA Abhishek Chandra, University of Minnesota, USA Edgar Gabriel, University of Houston, USA Haiwu He, INRIA, France Bahman Javadi, University of Melbourne, Australia Yang-Suk Kee, University of Southern California, USA Arnaud Legrand, CNRS, France Grzegorz Malewicz, University of Alabama, USA Alan Sussman, University of Maryland, USA Michela Taufer, University of Delaware, USA David Toth, Merrimack College, USA Bernard Traversat, Oracle Corporation, USA Carlos Varela, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Sebastien Varrette, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Jon Weissman, University of Minnesota, USA Zhiyuan Zhan, Microsoft, USA