The 10th BOINC Workshop

A workshop on BOINC and volunteer computing will be held 29 Sept - 2 Oct 2014 at the SZTAKI Institute in Budapest, Hungary.

The objective of this workshop is to share information about BOINC and projects using it, through presentations and informal discussions, in an 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.

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.

Venue

The workshop will be held at

SZTAKI Institute

18-22 Victor Hugo St.

Budapest 1132

Information about transportation and lodging is here: http://www.lpds.sztaki.hu/lpds/contact

The Institute is convenient to public transportation, hotels, and the historic center of Budapest. Many thanks to Peter Kacsuk and Robert Lovas for making the venue available to us.

Schedule

The workshop will consist of two activities:

Talks: All participants are encouraged to give a short (20-30 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 and 3rd days of the workshop we'll divide into groups, to hack, document, discuss or learn some aspect of BOINC. Please come with ideas.

To allow more time for hackfest projects, we're extending the workshop to 4 days. However, you're welcome to attend only the first 2 or 3 days.

Monday 29 Sept

9:30 - 12:00: talks
- Robert Lovas: Introductory remarks
- David Anderson: A Brief History of BOINC
13:00 - 15:00: talks
- Bruce Allen: Einstein@Home
- Rom Walton: Support for VM applications in BOINC [BOINC-Virtualbox-Integration.pptx]
- Joachim Frtizsch: BOINC/Android status and plans
- Pete Jones: Volunteer computing at CERN
- Wenjing Wu: Atlas@home
15:30 - 17:30: talks
- Peter Hanappe: Power consumption issues
- Christian Beer: The future of Rechenkraft.net e.V.
- Matt Blumberg: Greetings from GridRepublic!
- Valter Cavecchia: TN-Grid & gene@home
- Filip Rydio: Possible Optimizations of Large Recurrent Neural Networks in CUDA

Tuesday 30 Sept

9:00 - 12:00: talks
- Andy Bowery: Current progress of CPDN
- Mark McAndrew: Charity Engine
- Peter Kacsuk: Integration of European Grid Infrastructure with BOINC - latest steps and applications
- Robert Lovas: Report on crowd computing related activities from IDGF (2013-2014)
- Nicolas Baldeck: Using BOINC for building the "wikipedia" of real-time weather forecasting
13:00 - 15:00: talks
- Ivgeny Ivashko: BOINC:FAST conference: results and plans
- Yuri Gordienko: Trends in computing power used by various BOINC communities
- Nikita Gordienko and Yuri Gordienko: Volunteer Measurements as the next evolution stage of BOINC
- Arnaud Legrand: modeling volunteer data archival
15:30 - 16:30: talks
- Arnaud Legrand and Wenjing Wu: Job replication in CAS@home
- Thomas Mielke: Techniques for Rapidly Integrating, Computing, and Analyzing Scientific Models with Heterogenous Grid Systems
16:30 - 17:30: discussion of volunteer computing and BOINC

Wednesday 1 Oct

9:00 - 17:00: plan hackfest projects; hackfest

Thursday 2 Oct

9:00 - 17:00: hackfest

Possible post-workshop activities

Hiking
- 13.35 miles: http://en.wikiloc.com/wikiloc/view.do?id=729920
- 7.1 miles: http://en.wikiloc.com/wikiloc/view.do?id=902527
Pálinka and Sausage Festival (3-5 Oct)
Hospital in the Rock Museum
Memento Park
Liszt Museum
- Piano recital 4 Oct 11:00

Possible hackfest topics

Discuss how we can use Jenkins (automated build/test system) to improve stability of BOINC server code. Develop a framework for unit and end-to-end tests.
Can we use xdelta3 to increase the efficiency of updating large files (e.g. VM images)?
Improve the tools for diagnosing failures of Android apps.
Tutorial on porting apps to Android.
Tutorial on deploying VM apps.
Improve diagnostic tools for VM apps.
Discuss how to reduce client impact; e.g. figure out how to suspend computing while a movie is playing.
Brainstorm on the Android GUI.
Another try at OpenAuth and LDAP authentication.
Another try at using Twitter Bootstrap.
Conduct an energy-measurement experiment.

Attendees (tentative)

Claus Adams, Cheil/Samsung
Bruce Allen, Max Planck Institute
Gregor Almassy, Cheil/Samsung
David Anderson, UC Berkeley
Tomi Asp, CERN
Nicolas Baldeck, Open Meteo Foundation
Christian Beer, Rechenkraft.net (RNA World)
Matt Blumberg, GridRepublic
Claire Adam Bourdarios, LAL (Orsay)
Andy Bowery, Oxford
Valter Cavecchia, CNR-IMEM, TN-Grid
Joachim Fritzsch, TU Dresden
Francisco Sanz García, Ibercivis
Yuri Gordienko, NAS Ukraine
Nikita Gordienko, NAS Ukraine
Peter Hanappe, Sony
Evgeny Ivashko, Karelian Resarch Centre RAS
Peter Jones, CERN
Jozsef Kovacs, SZTAKI
Arnaud Legrand, INRIA
Robert Lovas, SZTAKI
Attila Marosii, SZTAKI
Mark McAndrew, Charity Engine
Thomas Mielke, MindModeling@Home
Jonathan Miller, Oxford
Phillip Ogunfojuri, Cheil/Samsung
Filip Rydio, Asteroids@home
Rytis Slatkevicius, GridRepublic
Adam Visegradi, SZTAKI
David Wallom, Oxford
Rom Walton, UC Berkeley
Wenjing Wu, IHEP
Andrei Zinchenko, National Academy of Science of Ukraine

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