program

 


Friday, March 30

8:50am -9:00am


Welcome

9:00am -10:00am



Keynote speaker:
David P. Anderson,
Director of BOINC and SETI@home ,
University of California at Berkeley

10:00am - 10:30pm

Break

10:30am - 12:30pm

SESSION I: SYSTEMS

Invited Paper: Open Internet-based Sharing for Desktop Grids in iShare
Xiaojuan Ren, Purdue University, U.S.A.
Ayon Basumallik, Purdue University, U.S.A.
Zhelong Pan, VMWare, Inc., U.S.A.
Rudolf Eigenmann, Purdue University, U.S.A.


Invited Paper: Decentralized Dynamic Host Configuration in Wide-area Overlay Networks of Virtual Workstations
Arijit Ganguly, University of Florida, U.S.A.
David I. Wolinsky, University of Florida, U.S.A.
P. Oscar Boykin, University of Florida, U.S.A.
Renato J. Figueiredo, University of Florida, U.S.A.


SZTAKI Desktop Grid: a Modular and Scalable Way of Building Large Computing Grids
Zoltan Balaton, MTA SZTAKI Research Institute, Hungary
Gabor Gombas, MTA SZTAKI Research Institute, Hungary
Peter Kacsuk, MTA SZTAKI Research Institute, Hungary
Adam Kornafeld, MTA SZTAKI Research Institute, Hungary
Jozsef Kovacs, MTA SZTAKI Research Institute, Hungary
Attila Csaba Marosi, MTA SZTAKI Research Institute, Hungary
Gabor Vida, MTA SZTAKI Research Institute, Hungary
Norbert Podhorszki, UC Davis, U.S.A.
Tamas Kiss, University of Westminster, U.K.


Direct Execution of Linux Binary on Windows for Grid RPC Workers
Yoshifumi Uemura, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Yoshihiro Nakajima, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Mitsuhisa Sato, University of Tsukuba, Japan


12:30am - 1:30pm

Lunch Break

1:30pm - 3:00pm

SESSION II: SCHEDULING AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Local Scheduling for Volunteer Computing
David Anderson, UC Berkeley, U.S.A.
John McLeod VII, Sybase, Inc., U.S.A.


Moving Volunteer Computing towards Knowledge-Constructed, Dynamically-Adaptive Modeling and Scheduling
Michela Taufer, University of Texas at El Paso, U.S.A.
Andre Kerstens, University of Texas at El Paso, U.S.A.
Trilce Estrada, University of Texas at El Paso, U.S.A.
David Flores, University of Texas at El Paso, U.S.A.
Richard Zamudio, University of Texas at El Paso, U.S.A.
Patricia Teller, University of Texas at El Paso, U.S.A.
Roger Armen, The Scripps Research Institute, U.S.A.
Charles L. Brooks III, The Scripps Research Institute, U.S.A.


Proxy-based Grid Information Dissemination
Deger Erdil, State University of New York at Binghamton, U.S.A.
Michael Lewis, State University of New York at Binghamton, U.S.A.
Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, State University of New York at Binghamton, U.S.A.

3:00pm - 3:30pm

Break

3:30pm - 4:30pm

SESSION III: DATA-INTENSIVE APPLICATIONS AND DISTRIBUTED STORAGE

Challenges in Executing Data Intensive Biometric Workloads on a Desktop Grid
Christopher Moretti, University of Notre Dame, U.S.A.
Timothy Faltemier, University of Notre Dame, U.S.A.
Douglas Thain, University of Notre Dame, U.S.A.
Patrick Flynn, University of Notre Dame, U.S.A.


Invited Paper: Storage@home: Petascale Distributed Storage
Adam L. Beberg, Stanford University, U.S.A.
Vijay Pande, Stanford University, U.S.A.

4:30pm - 6:00pm

SESSION IV: THEORY

Applying IC-Scheduling Theory to Familiar Classes of Computations
Gennaro Cordasco, University of Salerno, Italy
Grzegorz Malewicz, Google, Inc., U.S.A.
Arnold Rosenberg, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, U.S.A.


Invited Paper: A Combinatorial Model for Self-Organizing Networks
Yuri Dimitrov, Ohio State University, U.S.A.
Gennaro Mango, Ohio State University, U.S.A.
Carlo Giovine, Ohio State University, U.S.A.
Mario Lauria, Ohio State University, U.S.A.


Invited Paper: Towards Contracts & SLA in Large Scale Clusters & Desktops Grids
Denis Caromel, INRIA, France
Francoise Baude, INRIA, France
Alexandre di Costanzo, INRIA, France
Christian Delbe, INRIA, France
Mario Leyton, INRIA, France

Adjourn