CycloidGrid: A proximity-aware P2P-based resource discovery architecture in volunteer computing systems

Abstract

Volunteer computing which benefits from idle cycles of volunteer resources over the Internet can integrate the power of hundreds to thousands of resources to achieve high computing power. In such an environment the resources are heterogeneous in terms of CPU speed, RAM, disk capacity, and network bandwidth. So finding a suitable resource to run a particular job becomes difficult. Resource discovery architecture is a key factor for overall performance of peer-to-peer based volunteer computing systems. The main contribution of this paper is to develop a proximity-aware resource discovery architecture for peer-to-peer based volunteer computing systems. The proposed resource discovery algorithm ..