------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Fourth Workshop on Desktop Grids and Volunteer Computing Systems (PCGrid 2010) http://pcgrid.imag.fr Supported by: The CoreGrid/ERCIM European Research Group on Desktop Grid and Volunteer Computing System held in conjunction with The 10th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2010) May 17-20, 2010, Melbourne, Australia http://www.manjrasoft.com/ccgrid2010/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DEADLINE EXTENSION *************************** The paper submission deadline is extended to December 14, 2009. However, all authors must submit the abstract of their paper by November 30, 2009. *********************** CALL FOR PAPERS *********************** OVERVIEW/SCOPE: Desktop grids and volunteer computing systems (DGVCS's) utilize the free resources available in Intranet or Internet environments for supporting large-scale computation and storage. For over a decade, DGVCS's have been one of the largest and most powerful distributed computing systems in the world, offering a high return on investment for applications from a wide range of scientific domains (including computational biology, climate prediction, and high-energy physics). While DGVCS's sustain up to PetaFLOPS of computing power from hundreds of thousands to millions of resources, fully leveraging the platform's computational power is still a major challenge because of the immense scale, high volatility, and extreme heterogeneity of such systems. The purpose of the workshop is to provide a forum for discussing recent advances and identifying open issues for the development of scalable, fault-tolerant, and secure DGVCS's. The workshop seeks to bring desktop grid researchers together from theoretical, system, and application areas to identify plausible approaches for supporting applications with a range of complexity and requirements on desktop environments. * This year's workshop will have special emphasis on the interaction of clouds and desktop grids. As such, we invite submissions on DGVCS topics including the following: * Cloud computing over unreliable enterprise or Internet resources * DGVCS middleware and software infrastructure (including management), with emphasis on virtual machines * incorporation of DGVCS's with Grid and Cloud infrastructures * DGVCS programming environments and models * modeling, simulation, and emulation of large-scale, volatile environments * resource management and scheduling * resource measurement and characterization * novel DGVCS applications * data management (strategies, protocols, storage) * security on DGVCS's (reputation systems, result verification) * multi-core DGVCS's * fault-tolerance on shared, volatile resources * peer-to-peer (P2P) algorithms or systems applied to DGVCS's With regard to the last topic, we strongly encourage authors of P2P-related paper submissions to emphasize the applicability to DGVCS's in order to be within the scope of the workshop. KEYNOTE SPEAKER *************************** Prof. David Abramson Director of eScience and Grid Engineering Lab Monash University, Australia IMPORTANT DATES *************************** Manuscript submission deadline: November 30, 2009 (extended to December 14, 2009) Acceptance Notification: December 30, 2009 (extended to January 15, 2010) Camera-ready paper deadline: January 25, 2010 (February 5, 2010) PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit papers electronically. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed 6 letter size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings (print area of 6-1/2 inches (16.51 cm) wide by 8-7/8 inches (22.51 cm) high, two-column format with columns 3-1/16 inches (7.85 cm) wide with a 3/8 inch (0.81 cm) space between them, single-spaced 10-point Times fully justified text). Authors should submit the manuscript in PDF format and make sure that the file will print on a printer that uses letter size (8.5 x 11) paper. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the workshop attendees. Publication of the proceedings will be by the IEEE Computer Society Press, USA in the same volume as the main conference. JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE *************************** Selected papers will be invited to a special section of Elsevier Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS) Journal. WORKSHOP CHAIRS *************************** General Chairs: Gilles Fedak, INRIA, France Derrick Kondo, INRIA, France Program Chair: Bahman Javadi, INRIA, France Publicity Chair: Haiwu He, INRIA, France/Hohai University, China Program Committee: David Anderson, University of California at Berkeley, USA Mohammad-kazem Akbari, Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran Artur Andrzejak, Zuse Institute of Berlin, Germany Filipe Araujo, University of Coimbra, Portugal Henri Bal, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands Zoltan Balaton, SZTAKI, Hungary Massimo Canonico, University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy Henri Casanova, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA Abhishek Chandra, University of Minnesota, USA Fabrice Huet, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France Yang-Suk Kee, University of Southern California, USA Arnaud Legrand, CNRS, France Xiaosong Ma, North Carolina State University, USA Mitsuhisa Sato, University of Tsukuba, Japan Jaspal Subhlok, University of Houston, USA Michela Taufer, University of Delaware, USA David Toth, Merrimack College, USA Bernard Traversat, SUN, USA Carlos Varela, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Sebastien Varrette, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Jon Weissman, University of Minnesota, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------------