NSF/INRIA Workshop: Scheduling for Large-Scale Distributed Platforms
La Jolla, California
November 12- 14, 2005

This invitation-only workshop is made possible by a collaborative NSF-INRIA grant between UCSD and ENS-Lyon, and co-organized by Jeanne Ferrante and Larry Carter at UCSD, Henri Casanova at the University of Hawai`i, and Yves Robert and Frederic Desprez at ENS-Lyon.

Workshop Blog

Schedule

• Start Time: November 12, 2005: 4:30 pm PST, Registration opens at 4 pm.
• End Time: November 14, 2005: 1:00 pm PST (after lunch)
• All meeting sessions in the La Jolla Room, Sea Lodge Hotel.

Saturday 11/12/05
4:30PM-6PM	Session I: A Pebble Game for Internet-Based Computing ( Arnold Rosenberg) Scheduling competing regular applications on a heterogeneous master-worker platforms (Arnaud Legrand) Off- and on-line scheduling of divisible requests (Frederic Vivien)
6:30PM-7:30PM	Dinner at the Sea Lodge

Sunday 11/13/05
8AM-9AM	Breakfast at the Sea Lodge
9AM-10:30AM	Session II: Scheduling Challenges in Hosting Services on the Public Grid (Jon Weissman) Scheduling Independent Tasks Sharing Large Data Distributed with BitTorrent (Gilles Fedak) Status of Grid'5000 development: a 5000 CPU, nationwide experimental Grid (Franck Cappello)
10:30AM-11AM	Break and Refreshments
11AM-12PM	Session III: Messages Scheduling for Data Redistribution (Emmanuel Jeannot) Balanced Multicasting: High-throughput Communication for Grid Applications ( M athijs den Burger )
12PM-1PM	Lunch at the Sea Lodge
1:30PM-4:30PM	Excursion
4:30PM-5PM	Break and refreshments
5PM-6:30PM	Session IV: Scheduling with Reservations (Lionel Eyraud) Investigating Inaccuracy in User Runtime Estimates and "The Padding Hypothesis (Cynthia Bailey Lee) Scheduling Workflow Applications on Processors with Different Capabilities(Zhia Shi)
7PM-8PM	Dinner at the Sea Lodge

Monday 11/14/05
8AM-9AM	Breakfast at the Sea Lodge
9AM-10:30AM	Session V: Efficiently Programming Decentralized Systems (Sagnik Nandy) Towards an Internet Operating System: Middleware for Adaptive Distributed Computation (Carlos Varela) Automatic Middleware Deployment Planning on Clusters (Eddy Caron)
10:30AM-11AM	Break and Refreshments
11AM-12PM	PANEL
12PM-1PM	Lunch at the Sea Lodge
1PM	Workshop Adjourns