EDGeS: Bridging EGEE to BOINC and XtremWeb

Abstract

Desktop Grids, such as XtremWeb and BOINC, and Service Grids, such as EGEE, are two different approaches for science communities to gather computing power from a large number of computing resources. Nevertheless, little work has been done to combine these two Grid technologies in order to establish a seamless and vast Grid resource pool. In this paper we present the EGEE Service Grid, the BOINC and XtremWeb Desktop Grids. Then, we present the EDGeS solution to bridge the EGEE Service Grid with the BOINC and XtremWeb Desktop Grids

Browser-based Harnessing of Voluntary Computational Power

“…Other popular projects are Predictor@Home (study of protein behavior), Folding@Home (protein folding), climateprediction.net, climate@home (study of climate changes) and many more. Almost half of compute power is dedicated to top five BOINC projects [75].…”

“…The EDGeS project [75] aimed to join computing resources of institutional grids (in this case, from EGEE -Enabling Grids for E-sciencE) and desktop grids, i.e. XtremWeb and BOINC.…”

Ad Hoc Cloud Computing

“…sets CPUs, memory and disk space limits) to the V-BOINC Client (2). The virtual machine is then configured (3) and started (4) to allow it to request (5), receive (6) BOINC jobs and return job results (7). More information about V-BOINC can be found in [5].…”

“…This is not a trivial task and other research has taken place to enable job submission to BOINC (e.g. [6], [7], [8]) however these methods either split single tasks into independent jobs to be executed or would generate too much overhead for this type of platform.…”

Meta-brokering solution for establishing Grid Interoperability

“…An approach to extend GMBS to Desktop Grids is given in [48]. In this paper we investigated with my colleagues, how to use the 3GBridge service [84] acting as a Service Grid broker that can be managed by GMBS.…”