2006/02/16 by David P. Anderson, Anderson, David P., Gilles Fedak +1
Computer Science · #Cloud Computing and Resource Management #Distributed and Parallel Computing Systems #Peer-to-Peer Network Technologies #cs.DC #cs.PF
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cs/0602061
8 pages. To appear in CCGrid 2006
arxiv created 2006/02/16 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
"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, user-specified 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.