Survey and taxonomy of volunteer computing

TM Mengistu, D Che - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2019 - dl.acm.org
Volunteer Computing is a kind of distributed computing that harnesses the aggregated spare
computing resources of volunteer devices. It provides a cheaper and greener alternative …

cucloud: Volunteer computing as a service (vcaas) system

TM Mengistu, AM Alahmadi, Y Alsenani… - … –CLOUD 2018: 11th …, 2018 - Springer
Emerging cloud systems, such as volunteer clouds and mobile clouds, are getting
momentum among the current topics that dominate the research landscape of Cloud …

A parallel branch and bound algorithm for the resource leveling problem with minimal lags

JL Ponz‐Tienda, A Salcedo‐Bernal… - Computer‐Aided Civil …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The efficient use of resources is a key factor to minimize the cost while meeting time
deadlines and quality requirements; this is especially important in construction projects …

Global snapshot of a distributed system running on virtual machines

CE Gómez, HE Castro… - 2017 29th International …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, a new concept called desktop cloud emerged, which was developed to offer cloud
computing services on non-dedicated resources. Similarly to cloud computing, desktop …

Designing and implementing an IEEE 802.16 network simulator for performance evaluation of bandwidth allocation algorithms

YC Lai, YH Chen - 2009 11th IEEE International Conference on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
IEEE 802.16 technology is a promising technology to solve the last mile problem by its
wireless, long distance, and high-bandwidth transmission. However, there isn't any suitable …

Fault characterization and mitigation strategies in desktop cloud systems

CE Gómez, J Chavarriaga, HE Castro - Latin American High Performance …, 2018 - Springer
Desktop cloud platforms, such as UnaCloud and CernVM, run clusters of virtual machines
taking advantage of idle resources on desktop computers. These platforms execute virtual …

Determining the real capacity of a desktop cloud

CE Gómez, CO Díaz, CA Forero, E Rosales… - … : Second Latin American …, 2015 - Springer
Computer laboratories at Universities are underutilized most of the time [1]. Having an
averaged measure of its computing resources usage would allow researchers to harvest the …

Energy-aware vm allocation on an opportunistic cloud infrastructure

CO Diaz, H Castro, M Villamizar… - 2013 13th IEEE/ACM …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
UnaCloud is an opportunistic based cloud infrastructure (IaaS) that allows to access on-
demand computing capabilities using commodity desktops. Although UnaCloud maximizes …

Capacity of desktop clouds for running HPC applications: a revisited analysis

J Chavarriaga, CE Gómez, DC Bonilla… - … Conference on Applied …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract Desktop Clouds, such as UnaCloud and CernVM, run scientific applications on
desktop computers installed in computer laboratories and offices. These applications run on …

[PDF][PDF] A Review On Energy Efficient Cloud Computing Algorithms

A Prasher, R Bhatia - … Journal of Application or Innovation in …, 2014 - academia.edu
There is a great demand of powerful data centers (DCs) because high performance cloud
computing is required in every field such as business and web applications. These DCs …