EmBOINC: An emulator for performance analysis of BOINC projects

Authors:
Trilce Estrada;Michela Taufer;Kevin Reed;David P. Anderson
Affiliations:
University of Delaware, USA;University of Delaware, USA;IBM, USA;University of Berkeley, USA
Venue:
IPDPS '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel&Distributed Processing
Year:
2009

Citing 0
Cited 3

Balancing Scientist Needs and Volunteer Preferences in Volunteer Computing Using Constraint Optimization

ICCS '09 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computational Science: Part I
Fast and scalable simulation of volunteer computing systems using SimGrid

Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
Assessing MapReduce for Internet Computing: A Comparison of Hadoop and BitDew-MapReduce

GRID '12 Proceedings of the 2012 ACM/IEEE 13th International Conference on Grid Computing

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

BOINC is a platform for volunteer computing. The server component of BOINC embodies a number of scheduling policies and parameters that have a large impact on the projects throughput and other performance metrics. We have developed a system, EmBOINC, for studying these policies and parameters. EmBOINC uses a hybrid approach: it simulates a population of volunteered clients (including heterogeneity, churn, availability, reliability) and it emulates the server component; that is, it uses the actual server software and its associated database. This paper describes the design of EmBOINC and validates its results based on trace data from an existing BOINC project.