BOINC: a system for public-resource computing and storage

By David P. Anderson. Fifth IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing, 2004

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Peer-to-peer systems (2010, methodology): “For instance, Napster had a web site that maintained the membership and a content index; early versions of BitTorrent have a “tracker”, which is a node that keeps track of the set of nodes uploading and downloading the same content, and periodically provides nodes with a set of peers they can connec”
Many-task computing for grids and supercomputers (2008, background): “BOINC is known to scale well to large number of compute resources, but lacks support for data intensive applications due to the nature of the wide area network deployment BOINC typically has, as well as support for " black box " applications.”
Decentralized Applications: The Blockchain-Empowered Software System (2018, background): “This area has evolved from projects like BOINC [27], which relied on the goodwill of users to solve problems like DNA folding with their spare CPU cycles [28].”
The Computational and Storage Potential of Volunteer Computing (2006, methodology): “SETI@home uses BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing), a middleware system for volunteer computing [4].”
Entrusting Private Computation and Data to Untrusted Networks (2013, background): “systems [2] (such as SETI@home [30] and Folding@home [32]), MapReduce [21], and the organic grid [18].”
Rosetta3: An Object-Oriented Software Suite for the Simulation and Design of Macromolecules (2011, positive): “As of this writing, the choices include one job distributor for distributed computing within the BOINC framework (Anderson, 2004), one for use with one or more processes that communicate via the file system, and four MPI variants.”
Falkon: a Fast and Light-weight tasK executiON framework (2007, neutral): “BOINC s database-driven task dispatcher is estimated to be capable of dispatching 8.8M tasks per day to 400K workers.”
REM: Resource-Efficient Mining for Blockchains (2017, background): “Gridcoin [41, 40], an active cryptocurrency whose miners work for the BOINC [14] grid-computing network, relies on a central entity.”
Integrated Blockchain and Edge Computing Systems: A Survey, Some Research Issues and Challenges (2019, neutral): “3) Network Computing and Blockchain: Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) [81] is a platform for network computing, developed at U.C. Berkeley Spaces Sciences Laboratory.”
The Harvard Clean Energy Project: Large-Scale Computational Screening and Design of Organic Photovoltaics on the World Community Grid (2011, methodology): “2 program package [184] which was ported to the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) [185] environment.”
P3: P2P-based middleware enabling transfer and aggregation of computational resources (2005, positive): “Application-Job selection Communi-Programming Parallel Detection independent by resource cation Languages programming of false middleware provider protocol model results P3 yes yes JXTA Java Master-worker, yes Message passing JNGI [91 yes no JXTA Java Master-worker no BOINC [10] yes yes HTTP and C, ”
A review on reflective remote sensing and data assimilation techniques for enhanced agroecosystem modeling (2007, methodology): “net project which uses the boinc (Anderson, 2004) grid environment to perform individual simulations using idle processing capacity on personal computers volunteered by members of the general public (Stainforth et al.”
Cost-benefit analysis of Cloud Computing versus desktop grids (2009, methodology): “Here we characterize the resources used when hosting a BOINC project server.”
Flicker: an execution infrastructure for tcb minimization (2008, methodology): “In our implementation, we apply Flicker to the BOINC framework [2], which is a generic framework for distributed computing applications.”
1001 Ways to run AutoDock Vina for virtual screening (2016, background): “Finally, grids may constitute dedicated resources (e.g., using gLite [17] middleware) or volunteered personal computers connected via internet (e.g., BOINC [18]).”