EmBOINC: An emulator for performance analysis of BOINC projects

Author

Estrada, Trilce ; Taufer, Michela ; Reed, Kevin ; Anderson, David P.

Author_Institution

Univ. of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA

fYear

2009

fDate

23-29 May 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

BOINC is a platform for volunteer computing. The server component of BOINC embodies a number of scheduling policies and parameters that have a large impact on the projects throughput and other performance metrics. We have developed a system, EmBOINC, for studying these policies and parameters. EmBOINC uses a hybrid approach: it simulates a population of volunteered clients (including heterogeneity, churn, availability, reliability) and it emulates the server component; that is, it uses the actual server software and its associated database. This paper describes the design of EmBOINC and validates its results based on trace data from an existing BOINC project.

Keywords

grid computing; scheduling; BOINC projects; Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing; EmBOINC; distributed computing; performance analysis; performance metrics; scheduling policies; volunteer computing; Biology computing; Computational modeling; Distributed computing; Measurement; Performance analysis; Physics computing; Processor scheduling; Testing; Throughput; Virtual colonoscopy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel & Distributed Processing, 2009. IPDPS 2009. IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Rome

ISSN

1530-2075

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3751-1

Electronic_ISBN

1530-2075

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPDPS.2009.5161135

Filename

5161135