A distributed evolutionary method to design scheduling policies for volunteer computing
Trilce Estrada, Olac Fuentes, Michela Taufer · 2008
Volunteer Computing (VC) is a paradigm that uses idle cycles from computing resources donated by volunteers and connected through the Internet to compute large-scale, loosely-coupled simulations. A big challenge in VC projects is the scheduling of work-units across heterogeneous, volatile, and error-prone computers. The design of effective scheduling policies for VC projects involves subjective and time-demanding tuning that is driven by the knowledge of the project designer. VC projects are in need of a faster and project-independent method to automate the scheduling design.