Enabling BOINC in infrastructure as a service cloud system
Volunteer or crowd computing is becoming increasingly popular for solving complex research problems from an increasingly diverse range of areas. The majority of these have been built using the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) platform, which provides a range of different se...
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European Geosciences Union
2017
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| author | Montes, D Añel, J Pena, T Uhe, P Wallom, D |
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| description | Volunteer or crowd computing is becoming increasingly popular for solving complex research problems from an increasingly diverse range of areas. The majority of these have been built using the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) platform, which provides a range of different services to manage all computation aspects of a project. The BOINC system is ideal in those cases where not only does the research community involved need low-cost access to massive computing resources but also where there is a significant public interest in the research being done. We discuss the way in which cloud services can help BOINC-based projects to deliver results in a fast, on demand manner. This is difficult to achieve using volunteers, and at the same time, using scalable cloud resources for short on demand projects can optimize the use of the available resources. We show how this design can be used as an efficient distributed computing platform within the cloud, and outline new approaches that could open up new possibilities in this field, using Climateprediction.net (http://www.climateprediction.net/) as a case study. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:fc23fe0c-03bc-4170-9d7d-f1020ba552072022-03-27T13:18:38ZEnabling BOINC in infrastructure as a service cloud systemJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:fc23fe0c-03bc-4170-9d7d-f1020ba55207Symplectic Elements at OxfordEuropean Geosciences Union2017Montes, DAñel, JPena, TUhe, PWallom, DVolunteer or crowd computing is becoming increasingly popular for solving complex research problems from an increasingly diverse range of areas. The majority of these have been built using the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) platform, which provides a range of different services to manage all computation aspects of a project. The BOINC system is ideal in those cases where not only does the research community involved need low-cost access to massive computing resources but also where there is a significant public interest in the research being done. We discuss the way in which cloud services can help BOINC-based projects to deliver results in a fast, on demand manner. This is difficult to achieve using volunteers, and at the same time, using scalable cloud resources for short on demand projects can optimize the use of the available resources. We show how this design can be used as an efficient distributed computing platform within the cloud, and outline new approaches that could open up new possibilities in this field, using Climateprediction.net (http://www.climateprediction.net/) as a case study. |
| spellingShingle | Montes, D Añel, J Pena, T Uhe, P Wallom, D Enabling BOINC in infrastructure as a service cloud system |
| title | Enabling BOINC in infrastructure as a service cloud system |
| title_full | Enabling BOINC in infrastructure as a service cloud system |
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