[TCPP-announce] DGRID 2003 - CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

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*                        CALL FOR PARTICIPATION                        *
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*               DGRID 2003 - First Advanced Topics Workshop on:        *
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*       Desktop Grids: Critical Systems and Applications Research      *
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*                          Associated with:                            *
*                              Grid2003                                *
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*            Registration at: http://www-csag.ucsd.edu/DGRID03         *
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*                   http://www-csag.ucsd.edu/DGRID03                   *
*                http://www.gridcomputing.org/grid2003/                *
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    DGRID 2003 - First Advanced Topics Workshop on: Desktop Grids:
          Critical Systems and Applications Research

    Monday, 17 November 2003 - Hotel Hyatt, Phoenix, Arizona

Sponsored by:
* The Center for Theoretical Biological Physics (CTBP),
  University of California, San Diego
* NPACI

IMPORTANT!!!! Limited space:You DO need to register beforehand to
attend the workshop.  
Registration at: http://www-csag.ucsd.edu/DGRID03

For more information e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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           DGRID 2003 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

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.


WORKSHOP PROGRAM

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:

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:

4:10PM   Franck Cappello (INRIA)
     Ontology of Desktop Grids: a Pragmatic View from the
     XtremWeb Experience
4:40PM   Miron Livny (UW)
     TBD
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

Registration at: http://www-csag.ucsd.edu/DGRID03

Limited space: You do need to register beforehand to attend the
workshop.

The registration for DGrid 2003 does NOT automatically register you
for SC2003 or Grid2003. To complete registration to SC2003 or
Grid2003, please go to: www.sc-conference.org/sc2003/registration.html


WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS

Andrew Chien (UCSD) (co-chair)
Michela Taufer (TSRI and UCSD) (co-chair)
David Abramson (Monash U, Australia)
Henri Bal (VU Amsterdam, The Netherland)
Kim Baldridge (SDSC and University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Fran Berman (SDSC and UCSD)
Jim Browne (U Texas)
Henri Casanova (UCSD and SDSC)
Ian Foster (ANL and U CHICAGO)
Geoffrey Fox (FSU)
Satoshi Matsuoka (TITECH, Japan)
Satoshi Sekiguchi (AIST, Japan)
Brian Tierney (LLNL)
Rich Wolsky (UCSB)


CONTACT

Andrew Chien: achien at cs.ucsd.edu
Michela Taufer: taufer at cs.ucsd.edu