Desktop grids have traditionally focused on executing computation intensive workloads. Can they also be used to execute data-intensive workloads? To answer this question, we prese...
Christopher Moretti, Timothy C. Faltemier, Douglas...
In the era of multicores, many applications that tend to require substantial compute power and data crunching (aka Throughput Computing Applications) can now be run on desktop PCs...
Chi-Keung Luk, Ryan Newton, William Hasenplaugh, M...
Desktop Grids represent an alternative trend in Grid computing using the same software infrastructure as Volunteer Computing projects, such as BOINC. Applications to be deployed o...
As Java is the preferred platform for the deployment of network computers, it is appealing to run multiple applications on a single Java desktop. We experimented with using the Ja...