Optimizing the data distribution layer of BOINC with BitTorrent

IPDPS Miami 2008 - Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, Program and CD-ROM

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Costa, Fernando ^a   Silva, Luis ^a   Fedak, Gilles ^b   Kelley, Ian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b INRIA   (France)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; MIDDLEWARE;

BIT TORRENT;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 51049114926     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPDPS.2008.4536446     Document Type: Conference Paper

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