Towards Bayanihan: building an extensible framework for volunteer computing using Java

Project Bayanihan seeks to develop the idea of volunteer computing , which allows people to very easily pool together their computers' processing power and cooperate in solving parallel problems. While the idea of volunteer computing o ers many exciting new prospects in global supercomputing and collaboration, its realization involves many challenging research issues that need to be addressed. In this paper, we present a exible object-oriented framework using Java and HORB that allows programmers to experiment with di erent approaches to these issues by simply extending and interconnecting basic library components. We also present results from a distributed web-crawling application written using the framework.