Analyzing the performance of volunteer computing for data intensive applications

Monsalve, S. Alonso; Carballeira, Félix García; Mateos, Alejandro Calderón

doi:10.1109/hpcsim.2016.7568390

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“…In this section, we will present different test cases using ComBoS . Our goal is to assess the performance of our approach, which involves some volunteer clients working as data servers, and has been described in Section 4.…”

Section: Evaluation and Analysis Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In order to study the performance of the methodology presented in the previous section, we have implemented this functionality in ComBoS. ComBoS is a Complete simulator of BOINC Infrastructures developed by the authors and can be downloaded from http://www.arcos.inf.uc3m.es/~combos/. ComBoS has been implemented with the help of the tools provided by SimGrid .…”

Section: Complete Simulator Of Boinc Infrastructuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In ComBoS, the client side is formed by groups of VNs. Volunteer Nodes are used by the participants who join a BOINC‐based project.…”

Section: Complete Simulator Of Boinc Infrastructuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The BOINC client implements 2 related scheduling policies: (1) CPU scheduling and (2) Work fetch. Both policies are included in the ComBoS scheduling and are also detailed in Alonso‐Monsalve et al The scheduling is based on a round‐robin between projects, weighted according to their resource share. This scheduling is described in detail in Anderson and McLeod .…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This approach involves having a percentage of the volunteer clients running as data servers, called data volunteers. We have implemented and evaluated our solution using ComBoS , an open‐source VC simulator developed by the authors. The evaluation carried out consists on the analysis of different scenarios considering 3 different VC projects: ATLAS@Home, RNA World, and DrugDiscovery@Home.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A new volunteer computing model for data‐intensive applications

Monsalve

Garcı́a-Carballeira

Calderón

2017

Concurrency and Computation

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Summary Volunteer computing is a type of distributed computing in which ordinary people donate computing resources to scientific projects. BOINC is the main middleware system for this type of distributed computing. The aim of volunteer computing is that organizations be able to attain large computing power thanks to the participation of volunteer clients instead of a high investment in infrastructure. There are projects, like the ATLAS@Home project, in which the number of running jobs has reached a plateau, due to a high load on data servers caused by file transfer. This is why we have designed an alternative, using the same BOINC infrastructure, in order to improve the performance of BOINC projects that have reached their limit due to the I/O bottleneck in data servers. This alternative involves having a percentage of the volunteer clients running as data servers, called data volunteers, that improve the performance of the system by reducing the load on data servers. In addition, our solution takes advantage of data locality, leveraging the low network latencies of closer machines. This paper describes our alternative in detail and shows the performance of the solution, applied to 3 different BOINC projects, using a simulator of our own, ComBoS.

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Section: Evaluation and Analysis Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Complete Simulator Of Boinc Infrastructuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In ComBoS, the client side is formed by groups of VNs. Volunteer Nodes are used by the participants who join a BOINC‐based project.…”

Section: Complete Simulator Of Boinc Infrastructuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Complete Simulator Of Boinc Infrastructuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%