program



Friday, May 20, 2011

9:00am -9:05am


Welcome

9:05am - 9:50am



Keynote speaker:
Prof. Miron Livny
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Title: Managing Complex High Throughput Applications from your Personal Computer

9:50am - 10:20am

Break

10:20am - 11:50am

SESSION I: RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND SCHEDULING 

Emulating Volunteer Computing Scheduling Policies
David Anderson
UC Berkeley, USA

Distributed Results Checking for MapReduce in Volunteer Computing
Mircea Moca, Gheorghe Cosmin Silaghi
Babes-Bolyai University, Romania
Gilles Fedak
INRIA/Université de Lyon, France

Volunteer Cloud Computing: MapReduce over the Internet
Fernando Costa, Luis Silva
University of Coimbra, Portugal
Mike Dahlin
The University of Texas at Austin, USA

Attic: A Case Study for Distributing Data in BOINC Projects
Abdelhamid Elwaer, Andrew Harrison, Ian Kelley, Ian Taylor
Cardiff University, United Kingdom


11:50am - 1:00pm

Lunch Break

1:00pm - 1:45pm



Keynote speaker:
Prof. Henri Casanova
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Title: Challenges and Hopes for Scheduling Applications on Desktop Grids

1:45pm - 2:50pm

SESSION II: SECURITY AND PARTICIPATION

How to make BOINC-based desktop grids even more popular?
Péter Kacsuk
MTA SZTAKI, Hungary

Increasing Participation in Volunteer Computing
David Toth, Russell Mayer, Wendy Nichols
Merrimack College, USA

DGVCS Security from a Different Perspective: Challenges and Hurdles
Tobias Dussa
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

2:50pm - 3:15pm

Break

3:15pm - 4:45pm

SESSION III: APPLICATIONS AND INFRASTRUCTURE

Evolutionary N-Body Simulations to Determine the Origin and Structure of the Milky Way Galaxy's Halo using Volunteer Computing
Travis Desell, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Boleslaw K Szymanski, Carlos Varela, Ben Willet, Matthew Arsenault, Heidi Newberg
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

Computing the Tree of Life - Leveraging the Power of Desktop and Service Grids
Adam Bazinet, Michael Cummings
University of Maryland, USA

libboincexec: A generic virtualization approach for the BOINC middleware
Diogo Ferreira, Filipe Araujo
University of Coimbra, Portugal
Patricio R. Domingues
Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Leiria, Portugal

Building online computing service over volunteer grid resources
Mark Silberstein
Technion, Israel

4:45pm - 5:30pm

PANEL DISCUSSION

Dr. David Anderson - UC Berkeley, USA

Prof. Péter Kacsuk - MTA SZTAKI, Hungary

Prof. Miron Livny - University of Wisconsin

Prof. Carlos Varela - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Adjourn