Flexible distributed computing with volunteered resources

AVRF: A Framework to Enable Distributed Computing Using Volunteered Mobile Resources

Screen Savers of the World Unite!

Recently, a new computing paradigm has emerged: a worldwide distributed computing environment consisting of thousands or even millions of heterogeneous processors, frequently volunteered by private citizens across the globe (1). This large number of processors dwarfs even the largest modern supercomputers. In addition to the scientific possibilities suggested by such enormous computing resource...

Early experiences with clusters and compute farms in ChessBrain II

Next generation volunteer-based distributed computing projects are working to embrace a wide range of distributed computing environments. In this paper we report on our early experiences with the ChessBrain II project, an established collaboration between researchers in a number of countries, investigating the feasibility of inhomogeneous speedcritical distributed computation. 1. Volunteer-base...

Improving the palbimm scheduling algorithm for fault tolerance in cloud computing

Cloud computing is the latest technology that involves distributed computation over the Internet. It meets the needs of users through sharing resources and using virtual technology. The workflow user applications refer to a set of tasks to be processed within the cloud environment. Scheduling algorithms have a lot to do with the efficiency of cloud computing environments through selection of su...

COMPUTING: Screen Savers of the World Unite! -- Shirts and Pande 290 (5498): 1903 -- Science

Recently, a new computing paradigm has emerged: a worldwide distributed computing environment consisting of thousands or even millions of heterogeneous processors, frequently volunteered by private citizens across the globe (1). This large number of processors dwarfs even the largest modern supercomputers. In addition to the scientific possibilities suggested by such enormous computing resource...