Derrick Kondo
2007-Sep-11 05:55 UTC
[Xen-users] [PCGRID08] CFP for Workshop on Desktop Grids and Volunteer Computing Systems
CALL FOR PAPERS Second Workshop on Desktop Grids and Volunteer Computing Systems (PCGrid 2008) held in conjunction with the IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) April 18, 2008 Submission deadline: October 15, 2007 Miami, Florida, U.S.A. web site: http://pcgrid.lri.fr Keynote speakers (confirmed) Dr. David P. Anderson, Director of SETI@home & BOINC, UC Berkeley, USA Dr. Henri Bal, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands Dr. Peter Kacsuk, SZTAKI, Hungary 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. Last year''s workshop was a great success (see the past program here: http://pcgrid07.lri.fr/program.html). We invite submissions on DGVCS topics including the following: - DGVCS middleware and software infrastructure (including management) - 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: October 15, 2007 Acceptance Notification: December 21, 2007 Camera-ready paper deadline: January 28,2008 Workshop: April 18, 2008 ###################################################################### 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.lri.fr/submission.html ##################################################################### ORGANIZATION General Chairs Franck Cappello, INRIA, France Gilles Fedak, INRIA, France Program Chair Derrick Kondo, INRIA, France Program Committee 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 Henri Casanova, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA Abhishek Chandra, University of Minnesota, USA Frederic Desprez, INRIA, France Rudolf Eigenmann, Purdue University, USA Renato Figueiredo, University of Florida, USA Fabrice Huet, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France Peter Kacsuk, SZTAKI, Hungary Tevfik Kosar, Louisiana State University, USA Mario Lauria, Ohio State University, USA Arnaud Legrand, CNRS, France Virginia Lo, University of Oregon, USA Grzegorz Malewicz, Google Inc., USA Fernando Pedone, University of Lugano, Switzerland Serge Petiton, University of Lille, France Kevin Reed, World Community Grid, USA Olivier Richard, ID-IMAG, France Arnold L. Rosenberg, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA Mitsuhisa Sato, University of Tsukuba, Japan Luis Silva, University of Coimbra, Portugal Alan Sussman, University of Maryland, USA Michela Taufer, University of Delaware, USA Douglas Thain, University of Notre Dame, USA Bernard Traversat, SUN Inc., USA _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users