DocumentCode :
2981363
Title :
nuBOINC: BOINC Extensions for Community Cycle Sharing
Author :
Silva, Joãao Nuno ; Veiga, Luíis ; Ferreira, Paulo
Author_Institution :
INESC-ID, Tech. Univ. of Lisbon, Lisbon
fYear :
2008
fDate :
20-24 Oct. 2008
Firstpage :
248
Lastpage :
253
Abstract :
Currently, cycle sharing over the Internet is a one-way deal. Computer owners only have one role in the process: to donate their computers´ idle time. This is due to the fact that it is difficult for an ordinary user to install the required infrastructure, develop the processing applications and gather enough computer cycle donors. In this paper we describe a set of BOINC extensions that allow any user to create and submit jobs that can take advantage of remote idle cycles. These jobs are processed by commonly available software (e.g. programming language interpreters or virtual machines, statistical software) that is installed in the remote donating computers. In order to submit their jobs, users only have to provide the input files, select the processing application and define the command line to provide to that application. Later, users of the same software packages will contact the server, receive a set of jobs, and process them using the already installed commodity application. These users can later take advantage of other peoplepsilas computer cycles.This system allows an expressive definition of jobs providing considerable speed gains, while leveraging a cyclesharing platform and widely available commodity applications, in a truly global communal computer cycle market.
Keywords :
Internet; software packages; BOINC extensions; Internet; community cycle sharing; cyclesharing platform; software packages; Application software; Computer languages; Concurrent computing; Conferences; Data processing; Distributed computing; Internet; Java; Software packages; Virtual machining; BOINC; Community computing; Cycle sharing;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops, 2008. SASOW 2008. Second IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Venice
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3553-1
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3553-1
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/SASOW.2008.66
Filename :
4800686
Link To Document :
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