[AG-TECH] AG presentation tommorow (Tuesday) on BOINC - 'Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing', by Dave Anderson.

[smanos at vislab.usyd.edu.au]

Further to the details outlined below -

	- The powerpoint presentation will be distributed via VNC
		ipaddress is 129.78.226.195
		password is sitcrc
		screen # is set to auto (or 0)

	- I will be in the SITCRC room 30 minutes before the
	  presentation starts for audio testing, VNC testing, etc.
	  (that's 2:30pm Sydney/AU)



Tuesday, 9th March, 2004.
3:00 pm [ Sydney, Australia timezone ]

AG venue : SITCRC room (APAG Lobby -> Institutional Lobby -> SITCRC)
AG2 Venues server : https://vv2.ap-accessgrid.org:8000/Venues/default
Video : 233.2.178.20:17018
Audio : 233.2.178.20:17008



> BOINC - "Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing"
>   Dr Dave Anderson, University of California at Berkeley
> 
> Abstract
> 
> Public distributed computing projects use resources that are insecure,
> heterogeneous, unreliable, sporadically available, and expensive to
> communicate with. It's also hard to persuade people to share their PC.
> But the magnitude of the resource - roughly 100 million
> privately-owned PCs on the Internet today - makes it tempting to try,
> and projects like GIMPs, distributed.net and SETI at home have
> demonstrated the feasibility of the approach.
> 
> We are currently developing BOINC - Berkeley Open Infrastructure for
> Network Computing - which is a software platform for public
> distributed computing. BOINC will support a wide range of
> applications, including those with large storage or communication
> requirements. Independent projects can share overlapping resource
> pools, and participants can control the sharing of their resources.
> 
> 
> About David Anderson
> 
> Dr. David P. Anderson received a doctorate in Computer Science from
> the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1985. From 1985 to 1992 he was
> on the faculty of the Computer Science department at the University of
> California, Berkeley. His research interests include operating
> systems, distributed computing, real-time systems for continuous
> media, collaborative filtering, computer-based teaching, and computer
> music. He was Chief Technology Officer of Tunes.com and United
> Devices. He is currently a Research Scientist at the U.C. Berkeley
> Space Sciences Laboratory, where he directs the SETI at home and BOINC
> projects.