Survey on Idle Resources Utilization

As cited in papers on performance measurement and profiling [14], [15], computing power of desktop workstations is available, i.e. unused 50− 70% of the time – not only on weekends and during the night but also during busiest working hours. Since computing capacity steadily increases, these numbers are likely to grow. Usual resource request patterns, however are bursty, i.e. phases of multiple consecutive requests and phases of idleness are alternating. Although the papers focused on the CPUs, the term resource is of course much wider. This survey therefore also presents papers specifically dealing with using disks and network interfaces, as well as a paper dealing with resources for background use in general.