Volunteer Computing (VC) projects harnesses resources owned by the public and connected to the Internet. BOINC - Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing - is a well-known middleware that supports the VC paradigm. The number of BOINC-based projects has grown to over 70, and the total computing power has grown from 100 TeraFLOPS to 1,200 TeraFLOPS. Several of these projects are supported by industrial partners such as IBM and national funding agencies such as the National Science Foundation. A growing community is looking at BOINC not only to gather large comptuing power but also for research, science and educational purposes.

This meeting gathers scientists, students and instructors to discuss the state-of-the-art and new opportunities supported by BOINC and the large community of BOINC volunteers. David Anderson, pioneer of the volunteer computing paradigm and father of the BOINC middleware will open the meeting. Local and international scientists will present achievements and future research and educational opportunities.

Registration before August 20, 2008 is being advised.