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ESCIENCE
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
The Effectiveness of Threshold-Based Scheduling Policies in BOINC Projects
Several scientific projects use BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) to perform largescale simulations using volunteers’ computers (workers) across the Int...
Trilce Estrada, David A. Flores, Michela Taufer, P...
CCGRID
2001
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
XtremWeb: A Generic Global Computing System
Global Computing achieves high throughput computing by harvesting a very large number of unused computing resources connected to the Internet. This parallel computing model target...
Gilles Fedak, Cécile Germain, Vincent N&eac...
PVM
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Communication Target Selection for Replicated MPI Processes
Abstract. VolpexMPI is an MPI library designed for volunteer computing environments. In order to cope with the fundamental unreliability of these environments, VolpexMPI deploys tw...
Rakhi Anand, Edgar Gabriel, Jaspal Subhlok
EUROSYS
2010
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Delay Scheduling: A Simple Technique for Achieving Locality and Fairness in Cluster Scheduling
As organizations start to use data-intensive cluster computing systems like Hadoop and Dryad for more applications, there is a growing need to share clusters between users. Howeve...
Matei Zaharia, Dhruba Borthakur, Joydeep Sen Sarma...
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
On the "localness" of user-generated content
The “localness” of participation in repositories of usergenerated content (UGC) with geospatial components has been cited as one of UGC’s greatest benefits. However, the deg...
Brent Hecht, Darren Gergle