Notes on ISGC 2009: International Symposium on Grid Computing, Taipei, Taiwan

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ISGC 2009
8th International Symposium on Grid Computing
Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Aparil 21, 2009

Day 1. Opening Session

9:00 - 9:50 a.m. Opening Remarks and Keynote Speech

Opening Remarks:

Dr. Simon LIN, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Dr. Robert JONES, CERN, Switzerland

Keynote Speech:

Title: "A Tour of Citizen Cyber-Science"

David ANDERSON
University of California
Berekey Space Sciences Laboratory
USA


NOTES:

(Check if slides are available in ISGC 2009 website)

SETI@home

Folding@home

BOINC

http::boinc.berkeley.edu

climatepridction.net
Einstein@home (gravitational waves)

LHC@home
Rosetta@home (study on protein structure)
IBM Workd Community Grid

Other projects in other areas

Performance

500K people, I M computers
6.5 PetaFLOPS (3 from GPUs, 1.4 from PS3s)

Potential
- 1 billion PCS today, 2 bilioon in 2015
- GPU: approaching 1 TFLOPS
- 1 ExaFLOPS: 4M GPUs * 0.25 availability
- 1 Exabyte: 10M PC disks * 100 GB
- Freescale i.MX51: 2 GFLOPS, 200 mw

Organizational Models

Umbrella Proects

1. Institutional
- Lattice, VTU@home
2. Corporate
- IBM World COmmunity Grid
3. Community
- AlmereGrid
4. Research Community
- MIdnModeling.org

Resources Needed:

publicity
webdevelopment
sysadmin


Paradigm Connections

Grid Computing <---- Volunteer Computing --> Cloud Computing

Left: BOINC for desktop grids, EDGeS (interoperability), Backfill on OSG

Right: BOINC server on Amazon EC2, CERN VM (cloud-sourcing?)

Stardust@home

- The Stardust mission
- Where's the dust?
- Stardust@home: 23K volunteers, 43M viewings, 64 tracks found

Another example: FoldIt@home

VOLUNTEER THINKING

define goals
theorize
etc.

Middleware

jobs -> middleware -> people or computers

Middleware: identity, accounting, etc.


Proect: Bossa

- Open-source PHP-base middleware for volunteer thining: http://bossa.berkeley.edu/

- Polices

Proects in development (using Bossa)

- Hominids@home: Collect photos of Middle Awash (Ethiopia), Look for hominid and other fossils
-AfricaMap

Benefits of citizen cyber-science
(Volunteer computing is still in its infancy)

- To science
- To society

Carl Sagan's Blue Dot (?)

Conclusion

- Let's talk! : davea@ssl.berkely

OPEN FORUM

Question: How do you validate computation from volunteers?

Answer: Variety of techniques

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