SETI@home: an experiment in public-resource computing

By David P. Anderson, J. Cobb, E. Korpela, M. Lebofsky, D. Werthimer. 2002

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science

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Pinocchio: Nearly Practical Verifiable Computation (2013, background): “Common examples include cloud or grid computing, as well as volunteer distributed computing [1].”
Verifying computations with state (2013, background): “Unfortunately, the faults, and their effects, may not be visible as such.”
On Death, Taxes, and the Convergence of Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing (2003, background): “In contrast, P2P has been popularized by grass-roots, mass culture (music) file-sharing and highly parallel computing applications [4, 5] that scale in some instances to hundreds of thousands of nodes.”
Verifying computations without reexecuting them (2015, background): “A common answer is to replicate computations [1, 12, 13, 30].”
Serendipity: enabling remote computing among intermittently connected mobile devices (2012, background): “SETI@home: an experiment in public-resource computing.”
Non-interactive Verifiable Computing: Outsourcing Computation to Untrusted Workers (2010, background): “For years, a variety of projects, including SETI@Home [5], Folding@Home [2], and the Mersenne prime search [4], have distributed computations to millions of clients around the Internet to take advantage of their idle cycles.”
Resolving the conflict between generality and plausibility in verified computation (2013, neutral): “Replication [4, 19, 32, 41] assumes that failures are uncorrelated.”
Large-Scale and Extreme-Scale Computing with Stranded Green Power: Opportunities and Costs (2017, methodology): “Intermittent computing resources have been widely used for decades [38], [39], [40], [41], [42], [43], and successfully applied to large scale applications [44], [45], [46], [47], [48], [49], [50].”
Effective Straggler Mitigation: Attack of the Clones (2013, neutral): “6 Related Work Replicating tasks in distributed systems have a long history [24, 25, 26], and have been studied extensively [27, 28, 29] in prior work.”
A Hybrid Architecture for Interactive Verifiable Computation (2013, neutral): “Experimental results indicate that our system performs better and applies more widely than the best in the literature.”
Methodological Review: Cloud computing: A new business paradigm for biomedical information sharing (2010, background): “, large, decomposable problems in protein folding or astronomical signal analysis [10] and [11].”
A Survey of Computation Offloading for Mobile Systems (2012, methodology): “Offloading is in principle similar to efforts like SETI@home [5], where requests are sent to surrogates for performing computation.”
Peer-to-peer support for massively multiplayer games (2004, neutral): “0 20 40 60 Percentage of messages [0-2] [2-4] [4-6] [6-8] [8-10] [10-12] [12-14]”
Flicker: an execution infrastructure for tcb minimization (2008, background): “SETI@Home: An experiment in public-resource computing.”
All One Needs to Know about Fog Computing and Related Edge Computing Paradigms: A Complete Survey (2018, background): “Some existing systems that exploit volunteer edge computing and data sharing are Grid and peer-to-peer systems such as BitTorrent, BOINC [436], and SETI@home [437].”
A peer-to-peer approach to resource location in grid environments (2002, methodology): “Three examples that show the variety of deployed Grid applications are the Hot-Page portal, providing remote access to supercomputer hardware and software [TMB00]; the numerical solution of the long-open nug30 quadratic optimization problem using hundreds of computers at many sites [ ABGL02 ]; and t”
Galaxy Zoo: Exploring the Motivations of Citizen Science Volunteers. (2009, positive): “An important precursor to the host of new online-analysis citizen science projects is SETI@home (Anderson et al. 2002), which launched in 1999.”