Communications of the ACM
SETI@HOME—massively distributed computing for SETI
Computing in Science and Engineering
Grid Computing in the Enterprise with the UD MetaProcessor
P2P '02 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing
BOINC: A System for Public-Resource Computing and Storage
GRID '04 Proceedings of the 5th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing
Utilization of a Local Grid of Mac OS X-Based Computers using Xgrid
HPDC '04 Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
The Anatomy of the Grid: Enabling Scalable Virtual Organizations
International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications
The Challenge of Volunteer Computing with Lengthy Climate Model Simulations
E-SCIENCE '05 Proceedings of the First International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing
The Computational and Storage Potential of Volunteer Computing
CCGRID '06 Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
Virtual workspaces: Achieving quality of service and quality of life in the Grid
Scientific Programming - Dynamic Grids and Worldwide Computing
Friendstore: cooperative online backup using trusted nodes
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Social Network Systems
Facebook Meets the Virtualized Enterprise
EDOC '08 Proceedings of the 2008 12th International IEEE Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference
nanoHUB.org: Advancing Education and Research in Nanotechnology
Computing in Science and Engineering
Contextualization: Providing One-Click Virtual Clusters
ESCIENCE '08 Proceedings of the 2008 Fourth IEEE International Conference on eScience
Future Generation Computer Systems
The Eucalyptus Open-Source Cloud-Computing System
CCGRID '09 Proceedings of the 2009 9th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
Folding@home: Lessons from eight years of volunteer distributed computing
IPDPS '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel&Distributed Processing
Building the PolarGrid portal using web 2.0 and OpenSocial
Proceedings of the 5th Grid Computing Environments Workshop
Social Cloud: Cloud Computing in Social Networks
CLOUD '10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing
AmazingStore: available, low-cost online storage service using cloudlets
IPTPS'10 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Peer-to-peer systems
Globus Online: Accelerating and Democratizing Science through Cloud-Based Services
IEEE Internet Computing
Social Cloud Computing: A Vision for Socially Motivated Resource Sharing
IEEE Transactions on Services Computing
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Social networks offer great potential for fostering collaboration between individuals and amongst groups. This potential collaborative environment is not only applicable for recreation, but can also provide considerable value to diverse research communities. For this reason scientists are increasingly utilizing social networking concepts in projects to form groups, share information, publicize their work and communicate with their peers. This article describes two different approaches to supporting eScience, by providing scientific computing and collaboration within what we term the Social Cloud. In our first approach the social network is used as a collaborative overlay, in combination with the ad hoc creation of infrastructure composed of virtual machine clusters built from resources contributed, by the users, to the Social Cloud. Our second approach is based around the principle of volunteer computing, where the Social Cloud provides researchers with a platform to exploit social networks by reaching out to non technical users who would otherwise be unlikely to donate computational time for scientific and other research. In this article we specifically explore the motivations of users to contribute computational time and examine the various ways these motivations can be catered to through the use of incentives in existing social networks.