Volunteer Computing, an Interesting Option for Grid Computing: Extremadura as Case Study

This paper presents the works done by several research groups from University of Extremadura and CETA-CIEMAT (Centro Extreme˜no de Tecnolog´ıas Avanzadas) in order to deploy an infrastructure of distributed computing over the computing resources of Secondary School at Extremadura (Spain). To achieve the highest levels of performance, some tests have been developed. From small proofs of concepts with a few dozens of computers to large deployments devoted to big and real projects. Other works executed by the groups in relation with volunteer computing, such as: porting applications, creation of frameworks, damage hardware ratio or virtualization, are presented. Besides the achievements, the problems appeared in the integration process are described.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: OTM
• Authors: Miguel Cárdenas Montes, Miguel A. Vega-Rodríguez, Carlos J. García Orellana, Manuel Rubio del Solar, Juan Antonio Gómez Pulido, Horacio M. González Velasco, Antonio Gómez-Iglesias, Juan Manuel Sánchez-Pérez, Miguel Macías Macías
• Keywords: Damage Hardware Ratio, Distributed Computing, Extremadura, Internet Technology, OTM 2007