The 9th BOINC Workshop

A workshop on BOINC and volunteer computing will be held 25-27 September 2013 in Grenoble, France.

The objective of this workshop is to share information about BOINC and projects using it, through presentations and informal discussions, in a relaxed, open and friendly atmosphere. The workshop aims to stimulate new developments and activities related to volunteer computing, and to guide the future development of BOINC.

The workshop is for researchers, scientists and developers with significant experience or interest in BOINC. Areas of interest include:

• BOINC on Android
• GPU, multi-thread, VM-based, and Android applications
• Data-intensive applications
• Multi-user projects
• Remote job submission
• Integration with hubs, clouds, grids, and desktop grids

All participants will have the opportunity to present and discuss their work. Slides will be published on the web, but there will be no papers or proceedings.

Venue

INRIA Grenoble; details TBA

Registration

The workshop is free but attendance is limited. If you are interested in attending, or have any questions, please contact David Anderson, indicating your areas of interest.

Accommodations

You can find a range of hotel options on ​http://booking.com.

Schedule

The workshop will consist of two activities:

• Talks: All participants are encouraged to give a short (~20 min) talk describing their activities and plans related to volunteer computing. These talks do not have to be polished or present results. Please send your talk title to David Anderson.

• Hackfest: On the 2nd day of the workshop we'll divide into small groups, each of which will try to advance some aspect of BOINC. Please come with ideas.

Wed 25 Sept

Talks

Thu 26 Sept

Finish talks, start hackfest

Friday 27 Sept

Hackfest, wrap-up

Hackfest topics

• Making app versions for Android
• Remote job submission: unification
• Scheduling: batches and user quotas
• Make project web sites translatable
• Prototype a BOINC GUI using HTML5
• Improving the BOINC server documentation
• Creating and deploying VM-based app versions
• How to automate the end-to-end testing of BOINC?
• Replacing the heartbeat mechanism, and other improvements to the client/app interface
• Drupal/BOINC tutorial
• Further simplifying the BOINC install process and GUI

Attendees (tentative)

1. David Anderson, UC Berkeley
2. Gerdus Benade, Stellenbosch University
3. Andy Bowery, Oxford Univ.
4. Wenjie Fang, Université Paris Diderot
5. Bruno Gaujal, INRIA
6. Arnaud Legrand, INRIA
7. Mark McAndrew, Charity Engine

Before and after

28 September

All day: hike in the mountains; details TBD