The interaction of parallel and sequential workloads on a network of workstations
Proceedings of the 1995 ACM SIGMETRICS joint international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Future Generation Computer Systems - Special issue on metacomputing
Feasibility of a serverless distributed file system deployed on an existing set of desktop PCs
Proceedings of the 2000 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Online Prediction of the Running Time of Tasks
Cluster Computing
A longitudinal survey of Internet host reliability
SRDS '95 Proceedings of the 14TH Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems
Is remote host availability governed by a universal law?
ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review
BOINC: A System for Public-Resource Computing and Storage
GRID '04 Proceedings of the 5th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing
Resource Usage of Windows Computer Laboratories
ICPPW '05 Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops
The Computational and Storage Potential of Volunteer Computing
CCGRID '06 Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
Characterizing resource availability in enterprise desktop grids
Future Generation Computer Systems
Total recall: system support for automated availability management
NSDI'04 Proceedings of the 1st conference on Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation - Volume 1
Exploiting availability prediction in distributed systems
NSDI'06 Proceedings of the 3rd conference on Networked Systems Design & Implementation - Volume 3
Ensuring Collective Availability in Volatile Resource Pools Via Forecasting
DSOM '08 Proceedings of the 19th IFIP/IEEE international workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management: Managing Large-Scale Service Deployment
DHT-Based Self-adapting Replication Protocol for Achieving High Data Availability
Advanced Internet Based Systems and Applications
Modeling Job Lifespan Delays in Volunteer Computing Projects
CCGRID '09 Proceedings of the 2009 9th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
On correlated availability in Internet-distributed systems
GRID '08 Proceedings of the 2008 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing
Predictive algorithms in the management of computer systems
IBM Systems Journal
A survey of online failure prediction methods
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Volunteer computing on clusters
JSSPP'06 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Job scheduling strategies for parallel processing
The Failure Trace Archive: Enabling Comparative Analysis of Failures in Diverse Distributed Systems
CCGRID '10 Proceedings of the 2010 10th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing
Decentralized Resource Availability Prediction for a Desktop Grid
CCGRID '10 Proceedings of the 2010 10th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing
Network coding for distributed storage systems
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Availability in globally distributed storage systems
OSDI'10 Proceedings of the 9th USENIX conference on Operating systems design and implementation
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Estimating deadline-miss probabilities of tasks in large distributed systems
GPC'12 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Advances in Grid and Pervasive Computing
Searching for Translated Plagiarism with the Help of Desktop Grids
Journal of Grid Computing
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
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Volunteer computing uses the free resources in Internet and Intranet environments for large-scale computation and storage. Currently, 70 applications use over 12 PetaFLOPS of computing power from such platforms. However, these platforms are currently limited to embarrassingly parallel applications. In an effort to broaden the set of applications that can leverage volunteer computing, we focus on the problem of predicting if a group of resources will be continuously available for a relatively long time period. Ensuring the collective availability of volunteer resources is challenging due to their inherent volatility and autonomy. Collective availability is important for enabling parallel applications and workflows on volunteer computing platforms. We evaluate our predictive methods using real availability traces gathered from hundreds of thousands of hosts from the SETI@home volunteer computing project. We show our prediction methods can guarantee reliably the availability of collections of volunteer resources. We show that this is particularly useful for service deployments over volunteer computing environments.