CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on Large-Scale, Volatile Desktop Grids (PCGrid 2007) held in conjunction with the IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) March 30, 2007 Long Beach, California U.S.A. http://pcgrid07.lri.fr Desktop grids utilize the free resources available in Intranet or Internet environments for supporting large-scale computation and storage. For over a decade, desktop grids 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 desktop grids sustain up to Teraflops/second 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 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. Moreover, 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 desktop grid systems. As such, we invite submissions on desktop grid topics including the following: - desktop grid middleware and software infrastructure (including management) - incorporation of desktop grid systems with Grid infrastructures - desktop grid programming environments and models - modeling, simulation, and emulation of large-scale, volatile environments - resource management and scheduling - resource measurement and characterization - novel desktop grid applications - data management (strategies, protocols, storage) - security on desktop grids (reputation systems, result verification) - fault-tolerance on shared, volatile resources - peer-to-peer (P2P) algorithms or systems applied to desktop grids With regard to the last topic, we strongly encourage authors of P2P-related paper submissions to emphasize the applicability to desktop grids in order to be within the scope of the workshop. The workshop proceedings will be published through the IEEE Computer Society Press as part of the IPDPS CD-ROM. ###################################################################### IMPORTANT DATES Manuscript submission deadline: October 23, 2006 Acceptance Notification: December 11, 2006 Camera-ready paper deadline: January 22, 2007 Workshop: March 30, 2007 ###################################################################### SUBMISSIONS Manuscripts will be evaluated based on their originality, technical strength, quality of presentation, and relevance to the conference scope. Only manuscripts that have neither appeared nor been submitted previously for publication are allowed. Authors are invited to submit a manuscript of up to 8 pages in IEEE format (10pt font, two-columns, single-spaced). The procedure for electronic submissions has been posted at http://pcgrid07.lri.fr/submission.html ##################################################################### ORGANIZATION General Chairs Derrick Kondo, INRIA Futurs, France Franck Cappello, INRIA Futurs, France Program Chair Gilles Fedak, INRIA Futurs, France Program Committee David Anderson, University of California at Berkeley, USA Artur Andrzejak, Zuse Institute of Berlin, Germany MaengSoon Baik, Samsung Research, Korea Henri Bal, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands Zoltan Balaton, SZTAKI, Hungary James C. Browne, University of Texas at Austin, USA Denis Caromel, INRIA, France Abhishek Chandra, University of Minnesota, USA Rudolf Eigenmann, Purdue University, USA JoonMin Gil, Catholic University of Daegu, Korea Renato Figueiredo, University of Florida, USA Fabrice Huet, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France Adriana Iamnitchi, University of South Florida, USA Mario Lauria, Ohio State University, USA Virginia Lo, University of Oregon, USA Grzegorz Malewicz, Google Inc., USA Fernando Pedone, University of Lugano, Switzerland Serge Petiton, University of Lille, France Olivier Richard, ID-IMAG, France Arnold L. Rosenberg, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA Mitsuhisa Sato, University of Tsukuba, Japan Luis Silva, University of Coimbra, Portugal Alan Sussman, University of Maryland, USA Michela Taufer, University of Texas at El Paso, USA Douglas Thain, University of Notre Dame, USA Bernard Traversat, SUN, USA Jon Weissman, University of Minnesota, USA Rich Wolski, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA