Title: Using Volunteered Resources for Data-intensive Computing and Storage

Time: 15:00 PM, April 10, 2012

Place: Meeting room on the second floor of the computing center

About the speaker:  Dr. David P. Anderson received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He taught in the Computer Science department at the University of California at Berkeley, worked in industry, then returned to U.C. Berkeley as a Research Scientist. His work focuses on using technology to involve the public in scientific research. Dr. Anderson founded the SETI@home project in 1998, and he currently leads the BOINC project, which develops middleware for volunteer computing. He is also involved in creating new technology for scientific crowdsourcing and web-based education.

Abstract: Volunteer computing uses 700,000 PCs for a wide range of scientific computing projects.These PCs provide disk storage as well as CPU and GPU processing power.A growing number of projects are using volunteer computing for storage and data-intensive computing applications.

I will categorize these applications and will describe the scheduling and allocation techniques used to handle them in BOINC.