First Workshop on Large-Scale and Volatile Desktop Grids (PCGrid 2007)
held in conjunction with the IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium
(IPDPS)
March 23-30, 2007
Long Beach, California U.S.A.
Desktop grids utilize the free resources available in Intranet and
Internet environments for supporting large-scale computation and storage.
For over a decade, desktop grids 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 desktop grids 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 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. 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 systems.
As such, we invite submissions on desktop grid topics including the following:
With regard to the last topic, we strongly encourage authors of P2P-related paper submissions to
emphasize the applicability to desktop grids in order to be within the scope of the workshop.
Important dates
Manuscript submission closed
Acceptance Notification: December 11 18, 2006
Camera-ready paper deadline: January 22, 2007
Workshop: March 30, 2007