Please join us for the 2021 BOINC Workshop (this year, online), the annual showcase for research enabled by BOINC, and an open forum to discuss the technology and community.
Three Wednesdays in April: 14, 21, 28. Learn more and register at boincworkshop.org

Learn, Discover, Participate, Build: BOINC Workshop 2021
3 Wednesdays in April: 14, 21, 28
09:00 PDT / 11:00 CDT / 12:00 EDT / 17:00 BST+IST / 18:00 CEST / 19:00 EEST
FREE + ONLINE

BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) is an open-source software — and community — that enables volunteers to donate spare processing power from their PCs, laptops, and phones, to power vital scientific and medical research.

Aggregated, these resources enable cutting edge research across mathematics, biology, physics, quantum chemistry, climate prediction and more.

The BOINC Workshop is comprised of three sessions. The first will showcase projects that using BOINC, highlighting the role of citizen participation in advancing scientific research. The second is a forum for BOINC projects to discuss the technology, their accomplishments in the past year, and technical needs moving forward. The third is an open-ended community discussion.

Who should attend?
The BOINC Workshop is for anyone interested in harnessing science, technology, and online community to advance knowledge and effect change.

(*Part of the workshop, “Tech Talks” and “Tutorials” will be focused on people running, or interested in running, BOINC projects.)

Where is the Event? How do I participate? Where do I sign up?
This year’s workshop will be online, via Zoom. Please register to get the event URL.


I’d like to present, who do I contact?
If you’d like to speak on any BOINC-related topic (science, technology, community), please register or contact us.

Can I watch a recording later?
We’ll be posting highlights to YouTube - but to participate in Q&A, and other interactive elements of the workshop, it’s best to join us live :)


BOINC Workshop 2019 presentations
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLblxpyGay1Q6RFaSh99-83TVc0zb8J76c

📣 There have been recent updates to the BOINC Workshop website. - Updated April 11 2021 -
Go ahead and register if you haven't already. boincworkshop.org/register

https://www.boincworkshop.org/schedule wrote:

Schedule
The World of BOINC. April 14.
Come join the annual showcase of research projects using BOINC, and see what crowd-powered research is making possible today.

09:00 PDT / 11:00 CDT / 12:00 EDT / 17:00 BST+IST / 18:00 CEST / 19:00 EEST

Est program duration: 3.25 hours

START Matt Blumberg Welcome + the day’s agenda

+00:10 David Anderson BOINC Initiatives

+00:40 Marcus Belcastro Review of active BOINC projects

+00:55 Rytis Slatkevičius The Science Cloud

+01:10 Bruce Allen Einstein@home

+01:25 Nils Høimyr LHC@home

+01:40 David Wallom ClimatePrediction.net

+01:55 Juan Hindo World Community Grid: COVID Research

+02:10 John Clemens MachineLearning@home

+02:25. Ritu Arora BOINC@TACC: COVID Research

+02:40 Steven Clark nanoHUB

+02:55 Matt Blumberg Find.Bio + Charity Engine

+03:10 Matt Blumberg Wrap up + look forward to next week

Tech Talks. April 21.
If you’re running a BOINC project, please join us to discuss technical aspects of your project: accomplishments, goals, and needs.

09:00 PDT / 11:00 CDT / 12:00 EDT / 17:00 BST+IST / 18:00 CEST / 19:00 EEST

Est program duration: 3.25 hours

START Matt Blumberg Welcome + the day’s agenda

00:10 Mohanty Sharada AICrowd

00:25 Medha Atre Eydle AI

00:40 Max Ryabinin Learning@home

00:55 Panel: "Issues for AI on Volunteer Computing"

01:10 Ritu Arora BOINC@TACC

01:25 Andy Bowery CPDN

01:40 Vitalii Koshura BOINC for Android

01:55 Nils Høimyr LHC@Home

02:10 Bruce Allen Einstein@Home

02:25 Rytis Slatkevičius + Tristan Olive Charity Engine

02:40 David Anderson BOINC Development: Past year + draft roadmap

03:10 Matt Blumberg Wrap up + look forward to next week

https://www.boincworkshop.org/speakers wrote:

Speakers
David Anderson
BOINC, Science United

Nils Høimyr
LHC@Home (CERN)

Juan Hindo
World Community Grid (IBM)

Ritu Arora
BOINC@TACC (University of Texas at San Antonio)

Rytis Slatkevicius
The Science Cloud, Charity Engine, Find.Bio, PrimeGrid

Medha Atre
Eydle AI

Ashwini Rao
Eydle AI

Vitalii Koshura
BOINC for Android

Steven Clark
nanoHUB (San Diego Supercomputer Center)

Bruce Allen
Einstein@home (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics), BOINC PMC

Matt Blumberg
Charity Engine, Find.Bio, GridRepublic, BOINC PMC

David Wallom
ClimatePrediction.net (Oxford University)

John Clemens
MLC@home (UMBC)

Marcus Belcastro
BOINC Radio

Mohanty Sharada
AICrowd

Keith Uplinger
World Community Grid (IBM), BOINC PMC

Andy Bowery
ClimatePrediction.net (Oxford University)

Tristan Olive
Charity Engine, Find.Bio

Max Ryabinin
Learning@home

The agenda for Community Discussion + Tutorials on April 28 has not been posted yet but World Community Grid Tech Keith Uplinger has an exciting announcement for that day:
"I am planning on doing a tutorial similar to what I did in Chicago about setting up a BOINC server and running from scratch. My plan is to have it run on ubuntu 20.04 for ease of use for those to set it up."

I received my login details to Day 1, "The World of BOINC", on Wednesday, April 14 several hours ago, so they are being sent out now. There's still time to Register for this free event.

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Only hours away from Day 2 Tech Talks - April 21.
09:00 PDT / 11:00 CDT / 12:00 EDT / 17:00 BST+IST / 18:00 CEST / 19:00 EEST Est program duration: 3.25 hours

Register to attend if you haven't already. boincworkshop.org/register

START Matt Blumberg Welcome + the day’s agenda

+00:10 Mohanty Sharada AICrowd

+00:25 Medha Atre Eydle AI

+00:40 Max Ryabinin Learning@home

+00:55 Panel: "Issues for AI on Volunteer Computing"

+01:10 Ritu Arora BOINC@TACC

+01:25 Andy Bowery CPDN

+01:40 Vitalii Koshura BOINC for Android

+01:55 Laurence Field LHC@Home

+02:10 Bernd Machenschalk Einstein@Home

+02:25 Rytis Slatkevičius + Tristan Olive Charity Engine

+02:40 David Anderson BOINC Development: Past year + draft roadmap

+03:10 Matt Blumberg Wrap up + look forward to next week

Day 3 - April 28 - Presentations, Community Discussion + Tutorials.
The agenda for Day 3 outlines another promising day in the BOINC workshop.

09:00 PDT / 11:00 CDT / 12:00 EDT / 17:00 BST+IST / 18:00 CEST / 19:00 EEST -- Est program duration: 3.25 hours

START Matt Blumberg Welcome + the day’s agenda

+00:10 Steven Clark NanoHub

+00:25 Steffen Möller BOINC on OpenWrt

+00:40 Marko Jukic SiDock@home

+00:55 Breakout Session Topic brainstorm + polling

+01:05 TRACK 01: Breakout Sessions

+01:05 TRACK 02: Project Setup Tutorial

+02:15 Full group: Breakout reports + discussion

+03:00 Matt Blumberg Wrap up and closing notes

2021 BOINC Workshop - Day 01 videos are now live!
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL53-FdJ6NUueHqfipxZ2W4QnTbHlTi5HN

All 2021 BOINC Workshop videos are now online. There is a lot of great information documented here.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1YM32SpdGnb1S5b5gUJPyQ/videos

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