How to Make BOINC-Based Desktop Grids Even More Popular?

Author

Kacsuk, Peter

Author_Institution

MTA SZTAKI, Budapest, Hungary

fYear

2011

fDate

16-20 May 2011

Firstpage

1871

Lastpage

1877

Abstract

Although BOINC-based volunteer desktop grids are quite popular there are new potential usage scenarios that could make BOINC systems even more popular both for volunteer computing and for establishing institutional desktop grids. In the paper we show three major new usage scenarios that will significantly increase the use of BOINC in the future. The extension of service grids with support of inexpensive BOINC resources will turn the attention of service grid users towards BOINC systems. The access of BOINC systems via workflow-oriented science gateways will enlarge the number of user communities that can use BOINC systems in their daily work. Finally, providing QoS requirements in BOINC systems by extending them with on-demand cloud resources will attract user communities whose applications have got some time constraints.

Keywords

cloud computing; grid computing; internetworking; open systems; quality of service; service-oriented architecture; BOINC-based desktop grid; QoS requirement; on-demand cloud resource; service grid; workflow-oriented science gateway; Bridges; Communities; Databases; Logic gates; Middleware; Portals; Servers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Processing Workshops and Phd Forum (IPDPSW), 2011 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

ISSN

1530-2075

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-425-1

Electronic_ISBN

1530-2075

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPDPS.2011.350

Filename

6009058