Entropia: architecture and performance of an enterprise desktop grid system

By Andrew A. Chien, Brad Calder, S. Elbert, K. Bhatia. J. Parallel Distributed Comput., 2003

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Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems, Information Systems and Management

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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].”
ZCCloud: Exploring Wasted Green Power for High-Performance Computing (2016, background): “Peer-to-peer [47]–[49], desktop grid [50], [51], and Condor [52] are all well-known volatile resource management systems.”
The Computational and Storage Potential of Volunteer Computing (2006, background): “The Entropia [5] and XtremWeb [11] projects studied the speedup of specific applications in the context of volunteer computing.”
On Death, Taxes, and the Convergence of Peer-to-Peer and Grid Computing (2003, background): “…is presumably, in part at least, better network connectivity, which also allows for more flexibility in Grid application design: in addition to loosely coupled applications [1, 10, 12], Grids have been used for numerical simulation [3, 43] and branch-and-bound-based optimization problems [7].”
Cloud computing and emerging IT platforms: Vision, hype, and reality for delivering computing as the 5th utility (2009, background): “An enterprise Grid [36] harnesses computing resources of desktop computers (connected over an internal network or the Internet) within an enterprise without affecting the productivity of their users.”
Identification of a company's suitability for the adoption of cloud computing and modelling its corresponding Return on Investment (2011, background): “There is no doubt about the paramount potential of CC, but it is yet to cross its stage of infancy, with only a limited number of takers currently, owing to some of the challenges of its widespread adoption such as security, trust, and costeffectiveness [19,2].”
BOINC: a system for public-resource computing and storage (2004, background): “Commercial systems such as Entropia [2] and United Devices are more full-featured but not free.”