The Computational and Storage Potential of Volunteer Computing

By David P. Anderson, Gilles Fedak. IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing, 2006

373 citations recorded by the source corpus.

"Volunteer computing" uses Internet-connected computers, volunteered by their owners, as a source of computing power and storage. This paper studies the potential capacity of volunteer computing. We analyzed measurements of over 330,000 hosts participating in a volunteer computing project. These measurements include processing power, memory, disk space, network throughput, host availability, userspecified limits on resource usage, and host churn. We show that volunteer computing can support applications that are significantly more data-intensive, or have larger memory and storage requirements, than those in current projects.

Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/fc3a8a0ed013249303b5ed7b2d90a3d5a8426fd6

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Computer Networks and Communications

1. Kai Liu
2. Zhenlong Li
3. Chaowei Phil Yang
4. Qunying Huang
5. Fei Hu

In Information Systems

1. Kai Liu
2. Zhenlong Li
3. Chaowei Phil Yang
4. Qunying Huang
5. Fei Hu

Citations in the corpus

• Big Data and cloud computing: innovation opportunities and challenges (2017, background): “Volunteer computing has become a popular solution for Big Data, and large-scale computing and support volunteers around the world contribute their computing resources (e.g. personal computers) and storage to help scientists run applications (Anderson and Fedak 2006).”