For the last seven years XtremWeb has been established as an open source middleware for Desktop Grid, contributing to the popularity of this computing model in academia and industry. The XtremWeb platform, when deployed over networks of common Dektop PCs, provides an efficient and cost effective solution to supply high computing power to a wide range of application domains : bioinformatics, molecular synthesis, high energy physics, numerical analysis and many more. At the same time, many researches around Xtremweb has explored new challenging issues of Desktop Grid : scheduling, security, communication integration in Grid, programing models and P2P architecture. XW'08 follows the first edition of the workshop, which took place in the very charming city of Hammamet in Tunisia. The first edition of the workshop (http://xwug.lri.fr/xw07/) brought together more than 40 attendees and featured 16 talks, one tutorial, one PhD session and one discussion panel.
The "2nd XtremWeb Workshop" will provide the opportunity to asses the state of art researches and development, large scale deployments and real-life applications. The workshop addresses not only users and developers of Xtremweb but also people interrested in Desktop Grid. The 2nd edition of XtremWeb Workshop will take place at Univeristy Paris XI, at Orsay near Paris. It is intended as a forum for the community to share experience acquired with XtremWeb, and discuss current and future developments.
In addition, the 2nd XtremWeb Workshop will be held in conjunction with the 1st EDGeS Users Forum and Industry Forum (http://edges-grid.eu). EDGeS - enabling Desktop Grids for e-Science - is a European project with the aim of creating an integrated Grid infrastructure across Europe that seamlessly integrates a variety of Desktop Grids wih EGEE type of service Grids.
Workshop program will be organized as follow :
9.00 - 9.20 Presentation of the EDGeS project (Peter Kascuk)
9.20 - 9.40 Presentation of the EDGeS User Forum and Industry Forum (Ad Emmen)
9.40 - 10.00 How to set-up a local Desktop Grid or access the EDGeS infrastructure (Zoltan Balaton)
10.00 - 10.20 Methodology of Adapting Applications for EDGeS (Tamas Kiss)
10.20 - 10.40 Coffee break
10.40 - 11.00 BOINC -> EGEE bridge (Zoltan Farkas)
11.00 - 11.20 XtremWeb -> EGEE bridge (Gilles Fedak / Oleg Lodygensky)
11.20 - 11.40 Monitoring EDGeS (Filipe Araujo)
11.40 - 12.00 Data management and EDGeS (Ian Kelley)
12.00 - 13.00 Lunch break
13.00 - 13.20 Image/signal processing applications: Ultrasound computer tomography: Complex volume reconstruction and signal processing on distributed (Grid) computing architectures (Rainer Stotzka)
13.20 - 13.40 Biomedical applications
13.40 - 14.00 Materials science applications
14.00 - 14.20 Fusion physics applications
14.20 - 14.40 Coffee break
14.40 - 15.00 Medical Applications
15.00 - 15.20 Video Analysis
15.20 - 15.40 Genome research: PLINK, high-throughput genome association analysis (Elies Prunés Soler)
Pause 15:40 - 16:00
16:00 - 16:20 Using the Volunteer Computing platform XtremWeb-CH: lessons and perspectives Mohammed Ben Belgacem, ENSI, Tunisia
16:20 - 16:40 BLAST on Bitdew: Towards Data-Intense Bio-informatics on Desktop Grids ? Haiwu He, INRIA Saclay.
16:40 - 17:00 BonjourGrid: a Communauty Decentralized Desktop Grid Heiten Abbes, Univ. Tunis.
17:00 - 17:20 Peer-to-Peer Desktop Grids in the Real World : the ShareGrid Project Massimo Canonico (University of Piermonte Orientale)
17.00 - 17.45 Panel discussion - hot topics in Desktop Grids
17.45 Closing the EDGeS User and Industry Forum meeting
Installing XtremWeb-2.0.0, Deploying Applications and Monitoring the Platform. Oleg Lodygensky
1. DSLLab: An Experimental Platform for Desktop Grid Computing Paul Malécot, INRIA
2. Large Scale Execution of a Bioinformatic Application on a Volunteer Grid. Raphael Bolze, ENS
3. On Correlated Availability in Internet Distributed Systems, Derrick Kondo, INRIA Grenoble
4. Implementing New File Transfer Protocols in BitDew: Amazon S3 Case Study. Gilles Fedak, INRIA Futurs.
5. An Availability-Based Scheduler - case XtremWeb and other Activities, Claudio R. Geyer Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil
6. Private Virtual Cluster : a middleware for Instant Grids Victor Iniesta Sampayo
The workshop will take place at the University Paris XI in the Laboratory of LAL. Acces to the LAL can be found here : http://www.lal.in2p3.fr/spip.php?rubrique87
A list of hostel can be found here : http://www.lri.fr/~laplante/Visiteurs/English/hotels.html
If you want to participate, please, register here :
http://www.edges-grid.eu/web/userforum/1stmeeting and select Register.
For contact and information about the workshop :
| General chair | Gilles Fedak | INRIA | fedak@lri.fr |
| Program chair | Nabil Abdennadher, Mohammed Jemni | | | |
| Local chair | Oleg Lodygensky | LAL/IN2P3| lodygens@lal.in2p3.fr |