High-performance task distribution for volunteer computing

Proceedings - First International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing, e-Science 2005

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 196-203

  Andersen, David P ^a   Korpela, Eric ^a   Walton, Rom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTING POWER; TASK DISTRIBUTION; VOLUNTEER COMPUTING;

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DATA PROCESSING; INPUT OUTPUT PROGRAMS; SERVERS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 33846270011     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/E-SCIENCE.2005.51     Document Type: Conference Paper

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