welcome

Third Workshop on Desktop Grids and Volunteer Computing Systems (PCGrid 2009)
held in conjunction with the IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS)
Friday, May 29, 2009 in Room TR-Bernini at Torre Rossa Park Hotel
Rome, Italy

PLEASE NOTE THAT PCGRID 2010 WILL NOT BE HELD WITH IPDPS THIS YEAR. Desktop grids and volunteer computing systems utilize the free resources available in Intranet and Internet environments for supporting large-scale computation and storage. 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.

Keynote speaker
Prof. Jon Weissman, University of Minnesota, USA

Talk Title: Clouds@Grid
Abstract and bio

Important dates

Manuscript submission deadline: November 14 21, 2008
However, abstracts must still be submitted by November 14.

Acceptance Notification: January 16, 2009
Camera-ready paper deadline: February 15, 2009
Workshop: May 29, 2009


Also, please consider submitting to a special issue of the Journal of Grid Computing on volunteer computing and desktop grids. Read more in the call for journal papers. Note that the special issue is completely independent of the workhop; workshop submissions are not a prerequisite for journal submission.

INRIA post-doc position is available