BOINC Workshop 2024

29 May 2024, 00:20 → 31 May 2024, 17:30 Europe/Zurich

CERN

BOINC@20: Science + Technology + Community

The BOINC Workshop at CERN will look back at 20 years of volunteer computing, empowering citizens and scientists to tackle the world’s hardest problems, and will look forward to the future, to expand the scope of what we can all do, together.

To take part (whether in person or remote) please register.

Registration is open and closes on 6 May 2024. The registration for in-person attendence has been extendend until 15 May 2024.

 

Wednesday, 29 May

09:00 → 17:35 BOINC Workshop: Highlights of 20 years of BOINC

Here is an example description.

09:00 Welcome

Introduction and agenda.

Speaker: Matthew Blumberg

09:10 BOINC: Origins, past, and future

Speaker: David Anderson (u)

recording_david.mp4

Workshop 2024a.pdf

10:00 Historical overview from a volunteer's perspective

Speaker: Patrick Schoefer

recording_patrick.mp4

Schoefer.Patrick.HistoricalOverviewVolunteer.pdf

10:30 GridRepublic + Charity Engine / Past + Future

Speaker: Matthew Blumberg

Blumberg - 2024 BOINC Workshop Presentation.pdf

recording_matt.mp4

11:00 Empowering Science through the People: Citizen Science Infrastructures in Europe

Speaker: Francisco Sanz

recording_francisco.mp4

11:30 LHC@home, and the Impact of BOINC on Science

Speakers: Alex Piskun, François Grey, Laurence Field (CERN), Polina Sokolova

BOINC Workshop Presentation.pdf

recording_françois.mp4

12:00 Lunch

13:30 Introduction to the Afternoon Session

Speaker: François Grey

13:35 Energy consumption and carbon footprint of volunteer vs data center computing

Speaker: Ana Varbanescu

BOINC-toPublish.pdf

recording_ana.mp4

13:55 New opportunities for BOINC in the field of scientific simulations

Speaker: Bastien Chopard

chopard-Boinc.pdf

recording_bastien.mp4

14:15 New strategies for combining volunteer computing and BOINC

Speaker: Sharada Mohanty

recording_mohanty.mp4

14:35 Open source software projects in high-energy physics: some lessons learned

Speaker: Clemens Lange (Paul Scherrer Institute (CH))

20240529_BOINC_OpenSourceSoftwareInHEP.pdf

recording_clemens.mp4

14:55 Incentives for distributed computing: new concepts and methodologies

Speaker: Levi Rybalov

recording_levi.mp4

15:15 Beyond Computing: new trends in networked sensors

Speaker: Violet Su

recording_su.mp4

Violet Su - Seeed for BOINC Workshop at CERN.pdf

15:35 Coffee

15:45 Introduction to the breakout sessions

Speaker: François Grey

15:55 Breakout Sessions

16:55 Report back from Breakout Sessions

Thursday, 30 May

09:00 → 12:00 BOINC Meets Youth: WSIS

09:00 → 21:00 BOINC Workshop: Science and Platform

09:00 Welcome and Introduction

Speaker: Matthew Blumberg

09:05 Progress in climateprediction.net

Speaker: Andy Bowery

09:35 The Science Cloud

Speaker: Rytis Slatkevičius

10:05 Sustainable crunching @ home - BOINC vs Home Assistant

Speaker: Alexander Schöcke

Presentation on Prezi.com

10:35 Transit

10:40 Breakout Sessions

12:00 Transit

12:25 WSIS Registration

14:00 WSIS Prizes 2024 Champions Ceremony

15:30 Transit

15:55 Introduction to the Afternoon Session

Speaker: Matthew Blumberg

16:00 Report back from Lunch Breakout Sessions

16:30 New and Future features

Speaker: David Anderson (u)

Workshop 2024b.pdf

17:00 GPU and VM and OS

17:30 BOINC v8 Release

Speaker: Vitalii Koshura

18:00 BOINC Development Priorities + Opportunities

18:30 Hackathon planning

Speaker: David Anderson (u)

19:00 Transit

19:30 Group Dinner

14:00 → 18:00 BOINC Meets Youth: Lab Workshop

Friday, 31 May

09:00 → 12:30 BOINC Workshop: Hackathon

09:00 → 17:30 Geneva Trialogue on AI and Education for the SDGs (Potential activity - details TBD)

09:00 → 17:30 Space and Global Health Hackathon (Potential activity - details TBD)

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 17:30 BOINC Workshop: Hackathon