Public-Resource Computing: A new Paradigm for Computing and Science

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  • Juan David Osorio Betancur Psidium - Mobile Marketing

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18046/syt.v3i6.952

Keywords:

Supercomputing, public-resource computing, global computing, peer-to-peer systems, distributed systems, SETI@home, BOINC.

Abstract

This article explores the Public-Resource Computing concept, an idea that has been successfully developed in the scientific community a few years ago, which involves the use of spare computational resources available in the millions of PCs in the world connected to Internet. We discuss the SETI@home project, the most successful example of this concept, and we describe the BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing) platform, a software system created to make it easy for scientist to create and operate public-resource computing projects.

Author Biography

  • Juan David Osorio Betancur, Psidium - Mobile Marketing
    Bio Statement is available in Spanish

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2006-10-11

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