Wednesday 28 May 2008

Session 1: Introduction to EDGeS

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

Session 2: Technical results of EDGeS

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)

Session 3: Academic applications for EDGeS

12.00 - 12.20 Image/signal processing applications: Ultrasound computer tomography: Complex volume reconstruction and signal processing on distributed (Grid) computing architectures (Rainer Stotzka)

12.20 - 12.40 Biomedical applications (Alessandro Orro)

12.40 - 13.40 Lunch break 

13.40 - 14.00 Materials science applications (Yuri Gordienko)

14.00 - 14.20 Fusion physics applications (Fermin Serrano)

Session 4 : Industry applications for EDGeS

14.20 - 14.40 Medical Applications (Luc de Zeeuw)

14.40 - 15.00 Video Analysis (Erel Rosenberg)

15.00 - 15.20 Genome research: PLINK, high-throughput genome association analysis (Elies Prunés Soler)

Session 5: EDGeS-related projects and applications

15.20 - 15.40 EGEE presentation (Charles Loomis)

15.40 - 16.00 Coffee break

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)

Session 6: Panel discussion

17.20 - 18.00 Panel discussion - hot topics in Desktop Grids

18.00 Closing the EDGeS User  and Industry Forum meeting

Social Event (20h00 —) to be announced.

Thursday 05/29

9.30 - 12.30 Tutorial - XtremWeb-2.0.0 

 Session 7: Hot Topics in Desktop Grids  - 2

14:00 - 14.50 DSLLab: An Experimental Platform for Desktop Grid Computing (Paul Malécot, INRIA)

14:50 - 15:40  On Correlated Availability in Internet Distributed Systems (Derrick Kondo)

 Session 8: Latest XtremWeb results

16.00  16.30 Implementing New File Transfer Protocols in BitDew: Amazon S3 Case Study. (Gilles Fedak, INRIA Futurs.)

16.30 -17.00  An Availability-Based Scheduler - case XtremWeb and other Activities, (Claudio R. Geyer Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil)

17.00 Cosing the XtremWeb workshop