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

BOINC Workshop: Highlights of 20 years of BOINC

Here is an example description.

1 Welcome

Introduction and agenda.

Speaker: Matthew Blumberg

2 BOINC: Origins, past, and future

Speaker: David Anderson (u)

recording_david.mp4

Workshop 2024a.pdf

3 Historical overview from a volunteer's perspective

Speaker: Patrick Schoefer

recording_patrick.mp4

Schoefer.Patrick.HistoricalOverviewVolunteer.pdf

4 GridRepublic + Charity Engine / Past + Future

Speaker: Matthew Blumberg

Blumberg - 2024 BOINC Workshop Presentation.pdf

recording_matt.mp4

5 Empowering Science through the People: Citizen Science Infrastructures in Europe

Speaker: Francisco Sanz

recording_francisco.mp4

6 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

7 Introduction to the Afternoon Session

Speaker: François Grey

8 Energy consumption and carbon footprint of volunteer vs data center computing

Speaker: Ana Varbanescu

BOINC-toPublish.pdf

recording_ana.mp4

9 New opportunities for BOINC in the field of scientific simulations

Speaker: Bastien Chopard

chopard-Boinc.pdf

recording_bastien.mp4

10 New strategies for combining volunteer computing and BOINC

Speaker: Sharada Mohanty

recording_mohanty.mp4

11 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

12 Incentives for distributed computing: new concepts and methodologies

Speaker: Levi Rybalov

recording_levi.mp4

13 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

14 Introduction to the breakout sessions

Speaker: François Grey

15 Breakout Sessions

16 Report back from Breakout Sessions

Thursday, 30 May

BOINC Meets Youth: WSIS

BOINC Workshop: Science and Platform

17 Welcome and Introduction

Speaker: Matthew Blumberg

18 Progress in climateprediction.net

Speaker: Andy Bowery

19 The Science Cloud

Speaker: Rytis Slatkevičius

20 Sustainable crunching @ home - BOINC vs Home Assistant

Speaker: Alexander Schöcke

Presentation on Prezi.com

10:35 Transit

21 Breakout Sessions

12:00 Transit

22 WSIS Registration

23 WSIS Prizes 2024 Champions Ceremony

15:30 Transit

24 Introduction to the Afternoon Session

Speaker: Matthew Blumberg

25 Report back from Lunch Breakout Sessions

26 New and Future features

Speaker: David Anderson (u)

Workshop 2024b.pdf

27 GPU and VM and OS

28 BOINC v8 Release

Speaker: Vitalii Koshura

29 BOINC Development Priorities + Opportunities

30 Hackathon planning

Speaker: David Anderson (u)

19:00 Transit

19:30 Group Dinner

BOINC Meets Youth: Lab Workshop

Friday, 31 May

BOINC Workshop: Hackathon

Geneva Trialogue on AI and Education for the SDGs (Potential activity - details TBD)

Space and Global Health Hackathon (Potential activity - details TBD)

12:30 Lunch

BOINC Workshop: Hackathon