Desktop Grids: Critical Systems and Applications Research (DGRID 2003)

Desktop grid computing, exploiting unused resources in the Intranet environments and across the Internet, can deliver massive compute power to investigate complex and demanding problems in a variety of different scientific fields. Examples of such problems are understanding protein folding or predicting financial market fluctuations.

Building robust, secure and scalable desktop grid environments for computationally demanding applications requires a combined effort of researchers in both system engineering and application development communities, and raises new conceptual and practical challenges.

This advanced topics workshop is a forum for the discussion and presentation of recent advances and major challenges for desktop grid computing to reach higher levels of capability. The workshop goal is to bring together application scientists and desktop grid system researchers to assess the current state-of-the-art, identify major needs and opportunities, and to exchange ideas and chart future directions.

The workshop features invited talks from reputed researchers in the field of desktop grid computing and comprises two major sections: (1) application requirements for desktop grids and (2) frontiers of desktop grid systems. Each section will be followed by a discussion in which the participants will be able to directly ask the speakers questions, raise issues, or even provide the other participants with information.

1:30PM Welcome (Workshop Organizers)

SECTION I: Application Requirements for Desktop Grids

MODERATOR:

Michela Taufer (UCSD and TSRI)

TOPICS:

• What applications are effectively supported by state of the art desktop grid systems? What are their computation, communication storage attributes? How do their requirements scale over time?
• What are the barriers to large-scale production use of desktop grid systems by application scientists?
• What additional capabilities and functionality are needed to enable new (and much broader) classes of applications: is it the technology, algorithms or the systems that prevent support of a wider range of applications on desktop grid systems?

INVITED SPEAKERS:

(Click on the title to read the abstract)

1:45PM	Charles L. Brooks III (TSRI)
	Utilizing Large Distributed Computational Resources in Molecular Biophysics
2:15PM	Vijay Pande (Stanford)
	New, Linearly Scalable, Large-scale Grid Algorithms to Break Fundamental Barriers in Computational Biology
2:45PM	Philip Bourne (SDSC)
	High Noon - Bioinformatics versus the Grid
3:15PM	Discussion
3:40PM	Break

SECTION II: Frontiers of Desktop Grid Systems

MODERATOR:

Andrew Chien (UCSD)

TOPICS:

• Terminology: Can we get to a shared taxonomic model for desktop grid systems?
• What are the appropriate security and trust models for desktop grid systems and applications? (users, system administrators, others?)
• Can desktop grid systems support more than embarrassingly parallel applications (e.g. MPI like, peer-to-peer computing, data intensive distributed computing)?

INVITED SPEAKERS:

(Click on the title to read the abstract)

If you can do it on the Desktop you can do it everywhere

4:10PM	Franck Cappello (INRIA)
	Ontology of Desktop Grids: a Pragmatic View from the XtremWeb Experience
4:40PM	Miron Livny (UW)
5:10PM	Adam Beberg (Cosm)
	Distributed Computing without a Supercomputer
5:40PM	Discussion
6:00PM	Conclusion

Location

Hotel Hyatt Regency - Curtisw Room
122 North Second Street, Phoenix, Arizona, 85004

Registration

DGrid 2003 is open to:

• SC2003 technical program participants
• SC2003 technical program participants also registered to the Grid2003 Workshop
• Grid2003 Workshop participants not registered to SC2003

Last Change: Aug 2003
Author: Taufer Michela