Third Pan-Galactic BOINC Workshop - Proceedings

The workshop took place 5-6 Sept., 2007 in Geneva. About 40 people attended.

Powerpoint

You can get slides for some of the talks. Contents:

Adam Kornafeld - SZTAKI.ppt
Artyom Sharov - Superlink-online and BOINC.pdf
Bill Bovermann -  World Community Grid.ppt
Bruce Allen - Einstein@home.ppt
David Weir - LHC@home.pdf
Denis Perret-Gallix - Feynman@home.ppt
Derrick Kondo - performance evaluation.pdf
Francois Grey - Africa@home.ppt
Jack Harris - Mind modelling.ppt
Janus Kristensen - Bit Torrent.pdf
Janus Kristensen - BURP.pdf
John Hallissey - BOINC and Teams.ppt
Marc Somers - Leiden Classical.pdf
Matt Blumberg - GridRepublic.ppt
Nicolas Maire - MalariaControl.pdf
Tolu Aina - ClimatePrediction.ppt

David Anderson's slides are here.

Summaries of the breakout sessions:

• Recruitment; publicity; teams; Help Publicise BOINC
• Scheduler: handling diverse workloads; HR
• Virtual machines
• Retention; publicity; teams; Help Publicise BOINC
• Simplify app dev, backend API; The BOINC wrapper
• Interpreted apps: Java, Python, Lisp
• BOINC/Grid
• Web features; Preferences system (including project specific settings)
• Skill aggregation / education
• Security

Photos

One side of the room:

The other side of the room:

Group photo in front of the Chateau:

Francois Grey and David Anderson (they seem to be arguing, but actually they're not)

Saturday Hike - View #1:

Saturday Hike - Lunch spot:

Saturday Hike - Lunch:

Saturday Hike - First to top:

Saturday Hike - View #2:

More photos of the workshop are here. More photos of the hike are here.