Towards Real-Time, Volunteer Distributed Computing

  • Authors:
  • Sangho Yi;Emmanuel Jeannot;Derrick Kondo;David P. Anderson

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • CCGRID '11 Proceedings of the 2011 11th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Many large-scale distributed computing applications demand real-time responses by soft deadlines. To enable such real-time task distribution and execution on the volunteer resources, we previously proposed the design of the real-time volunteer computing platform called RT-BOINC. The system gives low O(1) worst-case execution time for task management operations, such as task scheduling, state transitioning, and validation. In this work, we present a full implementation RT-BOINC, adding new features including deadline timer and parameter-based admission control. We evaluate RT-BOINC at large scale using two real-time applications, namely, the games Go and Chess. The results of our case study show that RT-BOINC provides much better performance than the original BOINC in terms of average and worst-case response time, scalability and efficiency.