[Biodevelopers] [PCGRID07] CFP for Desktop Grid Workshop (deadline extended to October 30)

[Derrick Kondo]

CALL FOR PAPERS

Workshop on Large-Scale, Volatile Desktop Grids
and Volunteer Computing Systems (PCGrid 2007)
held in conjunction with the
IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS)
Manuscript submission deadline: October 30, 2006
Long Beach, California U.S.A.
http://pcgrid07.lri.fr

Desktop grids and volunteer computing systems utilize the free
resources available in Intranet or Internet environments for
supporting large-scale computation and storage. For over a decade,
desktop grids and volunteer computing systems 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 volunteer computing
systems sustain up to Teraflops/second 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 workshop seeks to bring 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.  Moreover, 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
desktop grid and volunteer computing systems.

As such, we invite submissions on desktop grid and volunteering
computing topics including the following:

- middleware and software infrastructure (including
 management)
- incorporation of desktop grid or volunteer computing systems
 with Grid infrastructures
- programming environments and models
- modeling, simulation, and emulation of large-scale, volatile
 environments
- resource management and scheduling
- resource measurement and characterization
- novel desktop grid or volunteer computing applications
- data management (strategies, protocols, storage)
- security (reputation systems, result verification)
- fault-tolerance on shared, volatile resources
- peer-to-peer (P2P) algorithms or systems applied to volunteer
 computing systems

With regard to the last topic, we strongly encourage authors of
P2P-related paper submissions to emphasize the applicability to
desktop grids or volunteer computing systems 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.

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IMPORTANT DATES

Manuscript submission deadline: October 30, 2006
Acceptance Notification:  December 11, 2006
Camera-ready paper deadline: January 22, 2007
Workshop: March 30, 2007

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SUBMISSIONS

Manuscripts will be evaluated based on their originality, technical
strength, quality of presentation, and relevance to the conference
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 has been posted at
http://pcgrid07.lri.fr/submission.html

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ORGANIZATION

General Chairs
Derrick Kondo, INRIA Futurs, France
Franck Cappello, INRIA Futurs, France

Program Chair
Gilles Fedak, INRIA Futurs, France

Program Committee
David Anderson, University of California at Berkeley, USA
Artur Andrzejak, Zuse Institute of Berlin, Germany
MaengSoon Baik, Samsung Research, Korea
Henri Bal, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
Zoltan Balaton, SZTAKI, Hungary
James C. Browne, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Denis Caromel, INRIA, France
Abhishek Chandra, University of Minnesota, USA
Rudolf Eigenmann, Purdue University, USA
JoonMin Gil, Catholic University of Daegu, Korea
Renato Figueiredo, University of Florida, USA
Fabrice Huet, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France
Adriana Iamnitchi, University of South Florida, USA
Mario Lauria, Ohio State University, USA
Virginia Lo, University of Oregon, USA
Grzegorz Malewicz, Google Inc., USA
Fernando Pedone, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Serge Petiton, University of Lille, France
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 Texas at El Paso, USA
Douglas Thain, University of Notre Dame, USA
Bernard Traversat, SUN, USA
Jon Weissman, University of Minnesota, USA
Rich Wolski, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA