Sabotage-tolerance mechanisms for volunteer computing systems
Future Generation Computer Systems - Best papers from symp. on cluster computing and the grid (CCGRID 2001)
SETI@home: an experiment in public-resource computing
Communications of the ACM
High-Performance Task Distribution for Volunteer Computing
E-SCIENCE '05 Proceedings of the First International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing
Scheduling Scheme based on Dedication Rate in Volunteer Computing Environment
ISPDC '05 Proceedings of the The 4th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing
The Effectiveness of Threshold-Based Scheduling Policies in BOINC Projects
E-SCIENCE '06 Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing
Performance Evaluation of Scheduling Policies for Volunteer Computing
E-SCIENCE '07 Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing
Efficient Scheduling Schemes for Sabotage-Tolerance in Volunteer Computing Systems
AINA '08 Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications
A distributed evolutionary method to design scheduling policies for volunteer computing
ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review
ICCS '09 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computational Science: Part I
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
Robust Asynchronous Optimization for Volunteer Computing Grids
E-SCIENCE '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Fifth IEEE International Conference on e-Science
Robust task scheduling for volunteer computing systems
The Journal of Supercomputing
Generalized Spot-Checking for Sabotage-Tolerance in Volunteer Computing Systems
CCGRID '10 Proceedings of the 2010 10th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing
Toward real-time, many-task applications on large distributed systems
EuroPar'10 Proceedings of the 16th international Euro-Par conference on Parallel processing: Part I
Emulating Volunteer Computing Scheduling Policies
IPDPSW '11 Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing Workshops and PhD Forum
Validating evolutionary algorithms on volunteer computing grids
DAIS'10 Proceedings of the 10th IFIP WG 6.1 international conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems
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Volunteer computing is a form of network based distributed computing, which allows public participants to share their idle computing resources, and helps run computationally expensive projects. Many existing volunteer computing platforms consist of millions of users, providing huge amount of memory and processing. Since the rapid growth in the volunteer computing projects, more researchers have been attracted to study and improve the existing volunteer computing system. However, the progress of concurrently running projects has slowed down due to the increasing competition of volunteers. Moreover, because of high computational needs and low participation rate of volunteers, attracting more volunteers and using their resources more efficiently have become extremely important, if volunteer computing is to remain a feasible method. In order to competently use the huge number of volunteered resources, workers' analysis and efficient task retrieval policies are important. The purpose of this paper is to assess the strengths and requirements of current volunteer computing platforms. The paper analyses different issues relating to volunteer computing such as analysis of workers, the effectiveness of workers, how their communication and computation can be modeled and how the effectiveness of task distribution and results verification policies are analyzed. At the end, some research directions in the form of partial results, and their intermediate verification have been shown, which may improve the performance of the overall system. Moreover, this survey will enable the research community to study the available schemes used in volunteer computing and help them fill gaps in existing research.