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Distributed Computing Grids—Safety and Security
Published in Yang Xiao, Security in Distributed, Grid, Mobile, and Pervasive Computing, 2007
Mark Stephens, V. S. Sukumaran Nair, Jacob A. Abraham
Several distributed computing grids are hosted by nonprofit scientific organizations who harness idle cycles from supporters (i.e., volunteer computing). For example, SETI created SETI@home as an economical method for analyzing massive amounts of radio telemetry data collected from space. SETI@home allows the general Internet public to volunteer their idle CPU cycles for scientific research [5]. Today SETI@home has harnessed over 1.6 million CPU years of donated idle CPU cycles and has realized an ROI of 1500:1. Similarly, the Folding@home PC grid is used to simulate protein folding. This critical research is used to study diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s disease. The Folding@home project currently has over 164,442 active Internet connected nodes.
Scheduling in volunteer computing networks, based on neural network prediction of the job execution time
Published in International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems, 2019
S. S. Parkhomenko, T. M. Ledeneva
Volunteer computing networks are a modern technology of distributed computing for large-scale computations and data processing based on computing resources connected to the Internet. It is understood that the computations are carried out by volunteers – users or organisations that have personal computers or clusters whose resources they agree to provide. To organise large-scale computing for solving various scientific problems, various projects are created using the BOINC platform (Folding@Home, MilkyWay@Home, Einstein@Home, Rosetta@Home, OPTIMA@Home, etc.), which is one of the known and common platforms for the organisation of volunteer computing.