Asia@home workshop
From Asia at Home
On 16 and 17 April 2009, some 40 participants are taking part in a Workshop on Volunteer Computing at Academia Sinica in Taipei. Volunteer computing is an established technology that enables ordinary citizens around the globe to contribute to important challenges in fundamental science and medicine, by providing idle time on their PCs and even partaking in data analysis via the Internet. Workshop participants represent academic institutions, international organizations and non governmental institutions involved in projects related to computer science and technology, fundamental research, satellite imagery, health and cybervolunteering, to name just a few. They are from different parts of Asia, including India, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Republic of China, South Korea and Taiwan, as well as Europe and North America. To read more...
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Photos
The following links have photos from the workshop:
Daniel Lombraña photostream (Jarifa and Extremadurathome.org project)
Niklausberger photostream
If you have an account in Facebook, there are two public created events for supporting and sharing photos, comments, links, etc. about the workshop and symposium:
If you do not have an account, join Facebook and search for Asia@Home or International Symposium on Grid Computing, and just join the events.
Workshop Schedule and Presentations
Thursday 16 April Morning
9:00 Welcome (Simon Lin) Video
9:05 Intro to workshop and objectives (Francois Grey) Video
9:15 Introduction to volunteer computing (David Anderson) Video
- What volunteer computing is, what apps it's good for, cost/benefit analysis, high-level intro to BOINC
10:00 Familiarization with the BOINC client (Hands-on exercise) Video
10:45 coffee break
11:00 Case study 1: Africa@home (Christian Pellegrini) Video
- Presentation: Media:Asia@home_Pellegrini.pdf
11:30 Case study 2: LHC@home (Ben Segal) Video
- Presentation: File:ISGC LHCathome.ppt
12:00 Open discussion
- Q&A, and participants invited to briefly present their volunteer computing plans and ideas
12:30 Lunch
Thursday 16 April Afternoon
14:00 Introduction to the BOINC software (David Anderson) Video
- The structure of the BOINC software, client and server. How to adapt or develop applications to run on BOINC.
15:15 coffee break
15:30 Creating a BOINC project (Demo and Hands on exercise) (Nicolas Maire) Video
17:30 End of session
18:00 depart by shuttle bus from in front of venue to workshop dinner (Howard Plaza Hotel)
Friday 17 April Morning
9:00 Case study 3: MalariaControl.net (Nicolas Maire) Video
9:30 Case study 4: Jarifa and Extremadura@home (Daniel Lombraña González) Video
10:00 coffee break
10:30 EDGeS: Interconnecting Desktop and Service Grids (Peter Kacsuk, Jozsef Kovacs) Video Video
12:00 lunch
Friday 17 April Afternoon
13:30 BOINC and cloud computing (Derrick Kondo) Video
14:00 Cloud computing demo (Derrick)
14:30 Volunteer Thinking with Bossa (David Anderson) Video
15:15 Case study 5: Africa Map (Ana Gago Da Silva) Video
- Presentation: File:GISAplicationsforBOINC BOSSA.pdf
15:45 coffee break
16:15 Working with Bossa (Hands on Exercise) (David Anderson) Video
- Show the process of creating a Bossa project on a local server.
17:00 Q&A
17:15 Workshop evaluation
17:30 end of workshop
Workshop Time and Place
16-17 April 2009
Conference Room 2, 3rd Floor
Building for Humanities and Social Science
Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
(Directly behind the Activity Center of Academia Sinica, where the Guest House is located)
Computing Requirements and Facilities
Participants will have access to a Linux system with BOINC and prerequisite software installed. Participants will run demos on this system. Participants will have access to the "boincadm" account on this system.
Participants are expected to have laptops, with a terminal program (putty or secure shell) so that they can log in to the server. Participants will install the BOINC client on their laptop.
