WorkShop07_Summary

The workshop took place 5-6 Sept., 2007 in Geneva. About 40 people attended.

Powerpoint

You can get slides for some of the talks. Contents:

Adam Kornafeld - SZTAKI.ppt
Artyom Sharov - Superlink-online and BOINC.pdf
Bill Bovermann -  World Community Grid.ppt
Bruce Allen - [email protected]
David Weir - [email protected]
Denis Perret-Gallix - [email protected]
Derrick Kondo - performance evaluation.pdf
Francois Grey - [email protected]
Jack Harris - Mind modelling.ppt
Janus Kristensen - Bit Torrent.pdf
Janus Kristensen - BURP.pdf
John Hallissey - BOINC and Teams.ppt
Marc Somers - Leiden Classical.pdf
Matt Blumberg - GridRepublic.ppt
Nicolas Maire - MalariaControl.pdf
Tolu Aina - ClimatePrediction.ppt

David Anderson's slides are here.

Summaries of the breakout sessions:

• Recruitment; publicity; teams; Help Publicise BOINC
• Scheduler: handling diverse workloads; HR
• Virtual machines
• Retention; publicity; teams; Help Publicise BOINC
• Simplify app dev, backend API; The BOINC wrapper
• Interpreted apps: Java, Python, Lisp
• BOINC/Grid
• Web features; Preferences system (including project specific settings)
• Skill aggregation / education
• Security

Photos

One side of the room:

Image(http://boinc.berkeley.edu/images/ws_07_1.jpg)

The other side of the room:

Image(http://boinc.berkeley.edu/images/ws_07_2.jpg)

Group photo in front of the Chateau:

Image(http://boinc.berkeley.edu/images/ws_07_3.jpg)

Francois Grey and David Anderson (they seem to be arguing, but actually they're not)

Image(http://boinc.berkeley.edu/images/ws_07_4.jpg)

Saturday Hike - View !#1:

Image(http://www.picador.net/share/pangalactic/hike.jpg)

Saturday Hike - Lunch spot:

Image(http://www.picador.net/share/pangalactic/lunch-1a.jpg)

Saturday Hike - Lunch:

Image(http://www.picador.net/share/pangalactic/lunch-2a.jpg)

Saturday Hike - First to top:

Image(http://www.picador.net/share/pangalactic/hike-first-to-topa.jpg)

Saturday Hike - View !#2:

Image(http://www.picador.net/share/pangalactic/mtblanca.jpg)

More photos of the workshop are here. More photos of the hike are here.