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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.
The "1st 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 developpers of Xtremweb but also people interrested in Dektop Grid. The workshop will take place in the very charming city of Hammamet in Tunisia. It is intended as a forum for the community to share experience acquired with XtremWeb, and discuss current and future developments.
Workshop program will be organized as follow :
Installing XtremWeb-CH, Deploying Applications and Monitoring the Platform.
Lunch (12h - 13h30)
Recent Developments, Customization and Grid Integration
1. XtremWeb-CH : A Large Scale Distributed Platform for High Performance Computing, Nabil Abdennadher and Regis Boesch, Université de Genève, Suisse. slides (pdf)
2. JaceP2P : an Environment for Asynchronous Computations on Peer-to-Peer Networks, Rapahel Couturier, Université de Franche Comté, France slides (pdf)
3. Bitdew: Towards Data Intense Application on XtremWeb, Gilles Fedak, INRIA, France. slides (pdf)
Pause (15h-15h15)
Application, Experience and Achievements
1 The GTRS: Creation of a Tunisian Grid for Scientific Research based on XtremWeb-CH, Heitham ABBES, UTIC, Tunis, Tunisie.
2 Porting PHYLIP Phylogenetic Package on the Desktop GRID platform XtremWeb-CH, Saber Riahi, Tunis, Tunisie. slides (pdf)
3 Deploying a Hand Writing recognition Application, Mohamed Laabidi and Maher Khemakhem, Miracl, Sfax-Tunisie
4 Sparse computation with XtremWeb-CH Olfa Hamdi, Versailles/Tunis.
6 Application Based Iterative Methods on XtremWeb, Haiwu He, Hohai University (Chine)/INRIA (France), slides (pdf)
2. YML: a Workflow Global Computing Environment, Nahid Emad, Versailles, France. slides (pdf)
This session will present hot topics in Desktop Grid research and results obtained using XtremWeb and XtremWeb-CH as an experimental platform.
2 Characterizing Desktop Grids Resources, Paul Malécot INRIA France slides (pdf)
3 Characterizing Result Errors in Internet Desktop Grids Derrick Kondo, INRIA, France slides (pdf)
Pause (10h30-10h45)
4 Result Certification and Fault tolerance in P2P Grids Rim Chayeh, Utic, Tunis, Tunisie.
5 Tasks Scheduling with Reservation in P2P Grids, Adel Essafi et Amine Mahjoub, UTIC, Tunis, Tunisie.
6 Tasks Scheduling with Budget Constraint in P2P Grids, Zied Zaidi et Ahmed Eleuch, UTIC, Tunis, Tunisie
Lunch (12-14h)
This session, follow by a panel discussion, will present future trends and direction of Desktop Grid Computing
2 OmniStorage Yoshiro Nakajima, University of Tsukuba, Japan slides (pdf)
3 3rd Generation Desktop Grids Franck Cappello, INRIA, France slides (pdf)
Pause (15h-15h15)
Panel Discussion (15h15-16h45)
Concluding the workshop, a panel session will discuss future direction in research and development. This discussion will help the community to share their works and collectively establish a roadmap for the next Xtremweb releases.
Workshop will take place in the 5 stars Hotel Al Mouradi in Hammamet (http://www.elmouradi.com/process/hotel/hotel_selection.aspx?id=706).
The workshop fee is 100 Euros, with an extra of 20 euros for single room, which encompasses 2 hotels nights, breakfeast, lunch and diner, as well as workshop fees.
For contact and information about the workshop :
| General chair | Gilles Fedak | INRIA | fedak@lri.fr |
| Program chair | Nabil Abdennadher | EIG Genève | nabil.abdennadher@hesge.ch |
| Local chair | Mohamed Jemni | ESST Tunis | mohamed.jemni@fst.rnu.tn |