Designing a runtime system for volunteer computing

Proceedings of the 2006 ACM/IEEE Conference on Supercomputing, SC'06

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Anderson, David P ^a   Christensen, Carl ^b   Allen, Bruce ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIDDLEWARE SYSTEMS; PROCESSING POWER; RUNTIME SYSTEMS; VOLUNTEER COMPUTING;

GRAPHIC METHODS; MIDDLEWARE; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 34548214719     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1188455.1188586     Document Type: Conference Paper

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