SEMINAR ON VOLUNTEER COMPUTING

Monday 20 Apr 2009, 09:00 → 12:00 Asia/Shanghai

Room C305 Main Building (IHEP)

Francois Grey (CERN) , Gang Chen (IHEP)

The objective of the Asia@home seminar is to introduce the technologies underlying volunteer computing to Chinese scientists who may be interested to use volunteer computing as a tool in their future research. The seminar includes lectures by four experts in the field, including leading developers of volunteer computing software as well as scientists who have been applying the technology in fields such as high-energy physics and malaria epidemiology. In addition, topics such as the interfacing of Grid computing and cloud computing with volunteer computing will be addressed. The new trend of “volunteer thinking” projects, where the volunteer does data analysis via a web interface, will also be described. A detailed programme and list of confirmed lecturers is provided below.

http://www.ihep.ac.cn/english/conference/vc.htm

Online video:

1. Introduction to volunteer computing and volunteer thinking

2. LHC@Home, volunteer computing for the Large Hadron Collider

3. MalariaControl.net: volunteer computing for malaria epidemiology in Africa

4. Volunteer computing, grid computing and cloud computing: opportunities for synergy

09:00 → 10:00 Introduction to volunteer computing and volunteer thinking

Speaker: Dr David Anderson (University of California at Berkeley)

Slides David_09_bossa.ppt David_09_intro.ppt

video http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XODkyNDYwNjg=.html

10:00 → 10:35 Case study #1: LHC@Home, volunteer computing for the Large Hadron Collider

Speaker: Dr Ben Segal (CERN)

Slides IHEP_LHCathome.ppt

video http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XODkyNDY1NDQ=.html

10:35 → 11:10 Case study #2: MalariaControl.net: volunteer computing for malaria epidemiology in Africa

Speaker: Nicolas Maire (Swiss Tropical Institute)

Slides ihep09malariacontrolnet.ppt

video http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XODkyNDcwMTY=.html

11:10 → 12:00 Volunteer computing, grid computing and cloud computing: opportunities for synergy

Speaker: Dr Derrick Kondo (INRIA)

Slides kondo.pdf

video http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XODkyNDcyODA=.html

12:00 → 12:30 End of session (informal discussion with speakers until 12:30)