High-performance task distribution for volunteer computing

被引：45

作者：

Anderson, DP ^{[1
]}

Korpela, E ^{[1
]}

Walton, R ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Calif Berkeley, Space Sci Lab, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA

来源：

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

关键词：

D O I：

10.1109/E-SCIENCE.2005.51

中图分类号：

TP301 [理论、方法];

学科分类号：

081202 ;

摘要：

Volunteer computing projects use a task server to manage work. Clients periodically communicate with the server to report completed tasks and get new tasks. The rate at which the server can dispatch tasks may limit the computing power available to the project. This paper discusses the design of the task server in BOINC, a middleware system for volunteer computing. We present measurements of the CPU time and disk I/O used by a BOINC server, and show that a server consisting of a single inexpensive computer can distribute on the order of 8.8 million tasks per day. With two additional computers this increases to 23.6 million tasks per day.

引用

页码：196 / 203

页数：8

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