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Special Issue on Volunteer Computing and Desktop Grids
Future Generation Computer Systems

http://pcgrid.imag.fr
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                          CALL FOR PAPERS
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The Elsevier Science's Journal Future Generation Computer Systems 
with the subtitle: 'The International Journal of Grid Computing: 
Theory, Methods and Application' will publish a special issue on 
Volunteer Computing and Desktop Grids. Desktop grids and volunteer 
computing systems (DGVCS's) utilize the free resources available in 
Intranet or Internet environments for supporting large-scale computation
and storage. For over a decade, DGVCS's have been one of the largest 
and most powerful distributed computing systems in the world, offering 
a high return on investment for applications from a wide range of scientific 
domains (including computational biology, climate prediction, and high-energy 
physics). While DGVCS's sustain up to PetaFLOPS of computing power from 
hundreds of thousands to millions of resources, fully leveraging the 
platform's computational power is still a major challenge because of 
the immense scale, high volatility, and extreme heterogeneity of such systems.
The purpose of this special issue is to focus on recent advances in the 
development ofscalable, fault-tolerant, and secure DGVCS's. 

*This special issue will have special emphasis on the interaction of 
clouds and desktop grids.

As such, we invite submissions on DGVCS topics including the following:

    * Cloud computing over unreliable enterprise or Internet resources
    * DGVCS middleware and software infrastructure (including management), 
      with emphasis on virtual machines
    * incorporation of DGVCS's with Grid and Cloud infrastructures
    * DGVCS programming environments and models
    * modeling, simulation, and emulation of large-scale, volatile environments
    * resource management and scheduling
    * resource measurement and characterization
    * novel DGVCS applications
    * data management (strategies, protocols, storage)
    * security on DGVCS's (reputation systems, result verification)
    * multi-core DGVCS's
    * fault-tolerance on shared, volatile resources
    * peer-to-peer (P2P) algorithms or systems applied to DGVCS's

Submission Deadline
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30 May 2010
Early submission encouraged

Special Issue Editors
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Derrick Kondo
INRIA, France
Email: derrick.kondo :: inria.fr

Bahman Javadi
INRIA, France
Email: javadi :: imag.fr

Editor-in-Chief
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Peter Sloot
University of Amsterdam, Department of Computer Science
Email: sloot :: science.uva.nl

Submission Details
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Manuscripts formatted along the guidelines for authors of the Future Generation
Computer Systems must be submitted online by 30 May 2010. Manuscripts are
typically 15 pages in length, and should not exceed 20 pages.