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Keynote Speech
Dr Jaspal Subhlok was invited to be the Keynote Speaker at the 4th Workshop on Desktop Grids and Volunteer Computing Systems (PCGrid 2010), Melbourne, Australia, May 2010. The title of the talk is "Virtual Cluster based Parallel Computing on Volunteer Nodes".TALK

PhD Pre-Defense
Rakhi Anand has fulfilled the requirements for pursuing PhD under Dr Edgar Gabriel. Her Pre-Defence talk on the topic "Optimizing the Execution of Parallel Applications in Volunteer Environments " can be found here.

PhD THESIS
Troy P. LeBlanc obtained his PhD and the documentation of the thesis titled "Design and Evaluation of a Communications Library for Volunteer Computing Environments" can be obtained here.

THESIS DEFENCE
In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Troy P. LeBlanc will defend his thesis Design and Evaluation of a Communications Library for Volunteer Computing Environments on Nov 30th 2009. For more details click here.

VOLPEX DATASPACE PAPER PUBLICATION
The paper titled "A Communication Framework for Fault-tolerant Parallel Execution." has been published at the 22nd Annual Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing. The paper can be found here.

VOLPEX MPI PAPER PUBLICATION
The paper titled "VolpexMPI: an MPI Library for Execution of Parallel Applications on Volatile Nodes has been published at The 16th EuroPVM/MPI 2009 Conference, Espoo, Finland, 2009. Published as Springer-Verlag LNCS,5759. The paper can be found here.

Girish Nandagudi defended his MS thesis
The MS thesis titled "Simulating the Performance of Parallel Applications on Desktop Grids" was successfully defended on 07/22/09 at PGH 550. The defense session lasted about an hour and a half. The details of the defense and the abstract of the thesis can be found here.