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 here: http://pcgrid07.lri.fr/program.html).

We invite submissions on DGVCS topics including the following:

• DGVCS middleware and software infrastructure (including management)
• incorporation of DGVCS's with Grid infrastructures
• DGVCS programming environments and models
• modeling, simulation, and emulation of large-scale, volatile environments
• resource management and scheduling
• resource measurement and characterization
• novel DGVCS applications
• data management (strategies, protocols, storage)
• security on DGVCS's (reputation systems, result verification)
• fault-tolerance on shared, volatile resources
• peer-to-peer (P2P) algorithms or systems applied to DGVCS's

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.

The workshop proceedings will be published through the IEEE Computer Society Press as part of the IPDPS CD-ROM.

IMPORTANT DATES

SUBMISSIONS

Manuscripts will be evaluated based on their originality, technical strength, quality of presentation, and relevance to the workshop scope. Only manuscripts that have neither appeared nor been submitted previously for publication are allowed.

Authors are invited to submit a manuscript of up to 8 pages in IEEE format (10pt font, two-columns, single-spaced). The procedure for electronic submissions will be posted at: http://pcgrid.lri.fr/submission.html

ORGANIZATION

General Chairs

Franck Cappello, INRIA, France

Gilles Fedak, INRIA, France

Program Chair

Derrick Kondo, INRIA, France

Program Committee

David Anderson, University of California at Berkeley, USA

Artur Andrzejak, Zuse Institute of Berlin, Germany

Filipe Araujo, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Henri Bal, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands

Zoltan Balaton, SZTAKI, Hungary

Henri Casanova, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA

Abhishek Chandra, University of Minnesota, USA

Frederic Desprez, INRIA, France

Rudolf Eigenmann, Purdue University, USA

Renato Figueiredo, University of Florida, USA

Fabrice Huet, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France

Peter Kacsuk, SZTAKI, Hungary

Arnaud Legrand, CNRS, France

Mario Lauria, Ohio State University, USA

Virginia Lo, University of Oregon, USA

Grzegorz Malewicz, Google Inc., USA

Fernando Pedone, University of Lugano, Switzerland

Kevin Reed, World Community Grid, USA

Olivier Richard, ID-IMAG, France

Arnold L. Rosenberg, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

Mitsuhisa Sato, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Luis Silva, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Alan Sussman, University of Maryland, USA

Michela Taufer, University of Delaware, USA

Douglas Thain, University of Notre Dame, USA

Bernard Traversat, SUN Inc., USA