Abstract “Volunteer computing” is the use of consumer digital devices for high-throughput
scientific computing. It can provide large computing capacity at low cost, but presents …

Volunteer computing, also known as public-resource computing, is a form of distributed
computing that relies on members of the public donating the processing power, Internet …

Volunteer computing projects use a task server to manage work. Clients periodically
communicate with the server to report completed tasks and get new tasks. The rate at which …

Desktop Grid has recently received the strong attraction for executing high throughput
applications as CPU, storage and network capacities improve and become cheaper …

The success of grid computing in open environments like the Internet is highly dependent on
the adoption of mechanisms to detect failures and malicious sabotage attempts. It is also …

BOINC, a middleware system for volunteer computing, involves projects, which distribute
jobs, and hosts, which execute jobs. The local (host-level) scheduler addresses two issues …

Desktop grids use the free resources in Intranet and Internet environments for large-scale
computation and storage. While desktop grids offer a high return on investment, one critical …

From agreement problems to replicated software execution, we frequently find scenarios
with voting pools. Unfortunately, Byzantine adversaries can join and collude to distort the …

MapReduce is a promising approach to support data-intensive applications on Volunteer
Computing Systems. Existent middleware like Bit Dew allows running MapReduce …

The computing resources in a volunteer computing system are highly diverse in terms of
software and hardware type, speed, availability, reliability, network connectivity, and other …