The Computational and Storage Potential of Volunteer Computing

"Volunteer computing" uses Internet-connected computers, volunteered by their owners, as a source of computing power and storage. This paper studies the potential capacity of volunteer computing. We analyzed measurements of over 330,000 hosts participating in a volunteer computing project. These measurements include processing power, memory, disk space, network throughput, host availability, userspecified limits on resource usage, and host churn. We show that volunteer computing can support applications that are significantly more data-intensive, or have larger memory and storage requirements, than those in current projects.

• Publication year

  2006

• Venue

  IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing

• Publication date

  2006-02-16

• Fields of study

  Computer Science, Engineering

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1109/CCGRID.2006.101arXiv cs/0602061
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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