Challenges in Designing Scheduling Policies in Volunteer Computing
Trilce Estrada, Michela Taufer · 2012
Volunteer Computing (VC) is a paradigm that allows the use of heterogeneous computing resources (e.g., desktops, notebooks) connected through the Internet and owned by volunteers to provide computing power needed by computationally expensive, loosely coupled applications. For such applications, VC systems represent an effective alternative to traditional High Performance Computing (HPC) systems because they can provide higher throughput at a lower cost.