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The Computational and Storage Potential of Volunteer Computing

Year: 2006

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: "Volunteer computing" uses Internet-connected computers, volunteered by their owners, as a source of computing power and storage. This paper studies the potential capacity of volunteer computing. We analyzed measurements of over 330,000 hosts participating in a volunteer computing project. These measurements include processing power, memory, disk space, network throughput, host availability, userspecified limits on resource usage, and host churn. We show that volunteer computing can support applications that are significantly more data-intensive, or have larger memory and storage requirements, than those in current projects.

Source: IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid)

DOI: 10.1109/ccgrid.2006.101

Authors: D.P. Anderson, G. Fedak

Institutions: Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique

Language: English

Topic: Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems

Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Science Foundation

Awards: SCI: NMI Development for Public-Resource Computing and Storage, Research and Infrastructure Development for Public-Resource Scientific Computing