Volunteer computing

Known as: Public Resource Computing 
Volunteer computing is a type of distributed computing in which computer owners or users donate their computing resources (such as processing power… (More)
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2013
2013
Social Volunteer Computing
While both volunteer computing and social networks have proved successful, the merging of these two models is a new field: Social… (More)
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2011
2011
Emulating Volunteer Computing Scheduling Policies
Volunteer computing systems such as BOINC use several interacting scheduling policies, which must address multiple requirements… (More)
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2007
2007
Volunteer Computing Using Casual Games
We introduce the idea of volunteer computing games– that is, casual games which are implementations of distributed algorithms… (More)
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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
The Computational and Storage Potential of Volunteer Computing
"Volunteer computing" uses Internet-connected computers, volunteered by their owners, as a source of computing power and storage… (More)
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2006
2006
Volunteer Computing on Clusters
Clusters typically represent a homogeneous, well maintain ed pool of high-end computation resources. This makes them particula… (More)
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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Designing a Runtime System for Volunteer Computing
Volunteer computing is a form of distributed computing in which the general public volunteers processing and storage to… (More)
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Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
High-performance task distribution for volunteer computing
Volunteer computing projects use a task server to manage work. Clients periodically communicate with the server to report… (More)
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2002
Highly Cited
2002
SETI@home: an experiment in public-resource computing
Millions of computer owners worldwide contribute computer time to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, performing the… (More)
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Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
Sabotage-tolerance mechanisms for volunteer computing systems
In this paper, we address the new problem of protecting volunteer computing systems from malicious volunteers who submit… (More)
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2001
Highly Cited
2001
Volunteer computing
This thesis presents the idea of volunteer computing, which allows high-performance parallel computing networks to be formed… (More)
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