Second Workshop on Desktop Grids and Volunteer Computing Systems (PCGrid 2008)
held in conjunction with the IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium
(IPDPS)
April 18, 2008
Miami, Florida U.S.A.
Desktop grids and volunteer computing systems (DGVCS's)
utilize the free resources available in Intranet or Internet
environments for supporting large-scale computation and
storage. For over a decade, DGVCS's 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 DGVCS's sustain up to PetaFLOPS
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 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
DGVCS's. 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. Last year's workshop
was a great success (see the past program
for 2007).
As such, we invite submissions on DGVCS topics including the
following:
With regard to the last topic, we strongly encourage authors
of P2P-related paper submissions to emphasize the
applicability to DGVCS's in order to be within the scope of
the workshop.
Important dates
Manuscript submission deadline: October 15
22, 2007
However, abstracts must be submitted by October 15.
Acceptance Notification: December 21, 2007
Camera-ready paper deadline: January 28,2008
Workshop: April 18, 2008