Invitation to contribute an article in a distributed computing book

[yoyo]

Hi guys,
we want invite you to contribute an article in a book about distributed volunteer computing.

If you are interested, you can contribute to a book which will be released this year by the German distributed computing association Rechenkraft.net e.V. For details just read below. ;-)

The book will be titled: "Distributed & Grid Computing - Science Made Transparent for Everyone. Principles, Applications and Supporting Communities".

This book will be published in color by a German science publisher. It will be distributed worldwide (including ISBN number, Amazon availability, etc.) and some copies will be placed in major libraries for free public access.

So far, the leaders of several of the major distributed computing projects have submitted an article to contribute to this book. Among these are:

SIMAP (Thomas Rattei, Technical University Munich),
QMC@home, (Stefan Grimme, University Muenster),
Nano-Hive@home (Brian Helfrich),
Dimes (Yuval Shavitt, Tel Aviv University),
TANPAKU (Tadashi Ando, Tokyo University),
MalariaControl.Net (Nicolas Maire, CERN / Swiss Tropical Institute),
The Lattice Project (Michael Cummings, University of Maryland),
Leiden Classical (Mark F. Somers, University Leiden),
Sztaki Desktop Grid (Adam Kornafeld, Hungarian Academy of Sciences),
Spinhenge@home (Christian Schröder, University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld),
Muon (Stephen Brooks),
Predictor@home (Charles L. Brooks III, Scripps Research Institute),
Evolution@home (Laurence Loewe, University Edinburgh),
Proteins@home (Thomas Simonson, École Polytechnique, France),
Orbit@Home (Pasquale Tricarico, Planetary Science Institute), and
PS3GRID (Gianni De Fabritiis, University of Barcelona, Spain)

In addition to these, Bernd Freisleben (University of Marburg) and colleagues have written an article informing about the Marburg ad hoc grid environment, MAGE, and Wolfgang Gentzsch, who is the coordinator of the D-Grid initiative, contributed the general introductory section that also covers BOINC.

The authors were encouraged to describe and of course illustrate the purpose and scientific background of their project in a way such that specialists and non-specialists get a clear idea of what is going on. The current status of the book is that all articles have been reviewed and are now in the process of being arranged for proper layout.

And this is where you come into the scene:
In addition to the grid infrastructure and grid project developers we are also inviting some authors from several of the world's leading distributed computing teams to describe their motivation and to present detailed technical solutions for a number of special problems related to grid & distributed computing and overclocking.

If you can provide a clearly written and illustrated description concerning for example:

-diskless client setup & operation
-cluster setup & operation
-application of gaming consoles for non-gaming purposes (e.g. PS3 & Folding@home or PS3GRID)
-a detailed overview on current hardware selection for maximum computational output
-special overclocking tweaks or even complete guides
-unconventional hardware manipulation (cooling, overclocking, etc.)
-cooling your machines using your pool (errr, no – we got an article covering that topic, already – sorry )

We would be happy to include your work in our book.

You may as well just summarize shortly the status and motivation of your team or just submit a nicely annotated image collection (e.g. illustrations of some of your team's "monster racks", etc.).

Our goal is to assemble a broad overview over this highly popular and rapidly developing field in order to present a good mixture of information that will encourage additional people to participate in existing or even develop new distributed & grid computing projects. With PS3GRID we have also covered the highly popular aspect of utilizing a game console for distributed computing.

Please let us know, if you are interested in contributing an article, submit some cool pictures or whatever you might feel useful to this book. Maybe you also have some completely different interesting ideas – just contact us by email (see below).

Best regards,
yoyo.

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Am Richtsberg 88/208
D-35039 Marburg
Germany

email: book@rechenkraft.net

http://www.rechenkraft.net - Germany's largest distributed computing community. We make those things possible that supercomputers don't.

[AL]

I understand that this book will be published in german? Is there any plans to publish this book in other languages (for example in english)?
PS. I don't have ocasion to do it before - so I do it now - It's nice to see You here Yoyo!

[yoyo]

The book will be published in english.
yoyo

[D_T_G]

If you can provide a clearly written and illustrated description concerning for example:

-diskless client setup & operation
-cluster setup & operation
-application of gaming consoles for non-gaming purposes (e.g. PS3 & Folding@home or PS3GRID)
-a detailed overview on current hardware selection for maximum computational output
-special overclocking tweaks or even complete guides
-unconventional hardware manipulation (cooling, overclocking, etc.)
-cooling your machines using your pool (errr, no – we got an article covering that topic, already – sorry )

If we even have such crunchers, they rather do not visit our forum. I think. Nonetheless I'm looking forward for that book, sounds unique.

[Mchl]

Ah come on... We've talked here about diskless BOINC operation, as well as BOINCing on computers withiut direct internet access. Some of us used to be optimisation freaks. And so on...

In other words, we've nothing to be ashamed of :)

yoyo: If I can suggest another topic for the book: BOINC is not only about technology. It's also about people. I think you could have a nice chapter on how BOINC has influenced lives of several volunteeres.

Take for example people, who are participating in BOINC online help desk. They use their time and other resources, to help other volunteers having problems running BOINC. For no other reason than satisfaction.

Think about people who are maintaining stats sites. This time they spend not only time and effort, but also money to maintain this sites and provide an adequate quality of service. Why?

And then, there are people, who when asked to donate money to help either one of the projects, or some auxillary site, often donate hundreds of dollars without much hesitation.

That's what I call 'BOINC Magick®' :wink:

Oh yes... Last but not least.
Welcome on BOINC@Poland yoyo :)

[yoyo]

Hi,
everybody is invited for an article. Just send suggestions to the mail address above.

Thx for the warm welcome here, maybe I can meet some of you in Wroclaw if I'm there next time ;)

yoyo