Analyzing the performance of volunteer computing for data intensive applications

2016 International Conference on High Performance Computing and Simulation, HPCS 2016

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 597-604

  Monsalve, Saúl Alonso ^a   Carballeira, Félix García ^a   Mateos, Alejandro Calderón ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

BOINC; Data intensive Applications; Simulation; Throughput; Volunteer computing

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER COMPUTING; DIGITAL STORAGE; GRID COMPUTING; MIDDLEWARE; THROUGHPUT;

BOINC; COMPUTATIONAL SOLUTIONS; DATA-INTENSIVE APPLICATION; LARGE SCALE EXPERIMENTS; LARGE-SCALE DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM; MIDDLEWARE SYSTEM; SIMULATION; VOLUNTEER COMPUTING;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 84991735616     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HPCSim.2016.7568390     Document Type: Conference Paper

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