Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel & Distributed Processing, 2009. IPDPS 2009. IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Rome
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3751-1
Electronic_ISBN :
1530-2075
DOI :
10.1109/IPDPS.2009.5161135
