The available capacity of a privately owned workstation environment
Performance Evaluation
Distributed computing feasibility in a non-dedicated homogeneous distributed system
Proceedings of the 1993 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
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
The utility of exploiting idle workstations for parallel computation
SIGMETRICS '97 Proceedings of the 1997 ACM SIGMETRICS 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
Applying scheduling and tuning to on-line parallel tomography
Proceedings of the 2001 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
XtremWeb: A Generic Global Computing System
CCGRID '01 Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
Improving Performance via Computational Replication on a Large-Scale Computational Grid
CCGRID '03 Proceedings of the 3st International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
Evaluating quorum systems over the Internet
FTCS '96 Proceedings of the The Twenty-Sixth Annual International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing (FTCS '96)
Heuristics for Scheduling Parameter Sweep Applications in Grid Environments
HCW '00 Proceedings of the 9th Heterogeneous Computing Workshop
Predicting the CPU Availability of Time-Shared Unix Systems on the Computational Grid
HPDC '99 Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
An Evaluation of Linear Models for Host Load Prediction
HPDC '99 Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
A longitudinal survey of Internet host reliability
SRDS '95 Proceedings of the 14TH Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems
Entropia: architecture and performance of an enterprise desktop grid system
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing - Special issue on computational grids
Exploiting idle cycles in networks of workstations
Exploiting idle cycles in networks of workstations
The workload on parallel supercomputers: modeling the characteristics of rigid jobs
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Resource Management for Rapid Application Turnaround on Enterprise Desktop Grids
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
The statistical properties of host load
Scientific Programming
Improving speedup and response times by replicating parallel programs on a SNOW
JSSPP'04 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing
Editorial: Special section: Paradigms for scalable and dependable grids
Future Generation Computer Systems
Future Generation Computer Systems
Future Generation Computer Systems
The performance of bags-of-tasks in large-scale distributed systems
HPDC '08 Proceedings of the 17th international symposium on High performance distributed computing
The grid: Analysis of basic principles and ways of application
Programming and Computing Software
A progressive multi-layer resource reconfiguration framework for time-shared grid systems
Future Generation Computer Systems
Characterizing fault tolerance in genetic programming
BADS '09 Proceedings of the 2009 workshop on Bio-inspired algorithms for distributed systems
Dynamic scheduling for heterogeneous Desktop Grids
GRID '08 Proceedings of the 2008 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing
DHT-based lightweight broadcast algorithms in large-scale computing infrastructures
Future Generation Computer Systems
Resource management system for computational grid building
SMC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
Editorial: Special section: Bio-inspired algorithms for distributed systems
Future Generation Computer Systems
Characterizing fault tolerance in genetic programming
Future Generation Computer Systems
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
Predicting the Quality of Service of a Peer-to-Peer Desktop Grid
CCGRID '10 Proceedings of the 2010 10th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing
Fast and scalable simulation of volunteer computing systems using SimGrid
Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
Dynamic scheduling for heterogeneous Desktop Grids
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Job-scheduling via resource availability prediction for volunteer computational grids
International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing
A taxonomy of peer-to-peer desktop grid paradigms
Cluster Computing
Future Generation Computer Systems
A Robust and Efficient Message Passing Library for Volunteer Computing Environments
Journal of Grid Computing
Long-term availability prediction for groups of volunteer resources
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Future Generation Computer Systems
Characterizing fault-tolerance of genetic algorithms in desktop grid systems
EvoCOP'10 Proceedings of the 10th European conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization
Trust and reputation based association among grid entities
SEPADS'12/EDUCATION'12 Proceedings of the 11th WSEAS international conference on Software Engineering, Parallel and Distributed Systems, and proceedings of the 9th WSEAS international conference on Engineering Education
Towards autonomic detection of SLA violations in Cloud infrastructures
Future Generation Computer Systems
Achieving high job execution reliability using underutilized resources in a computational economy
Future Generation Computer Systems
State-based predictions with self-correction on Enterprise Desktop Grid environments
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Customizable execution environments for evolutionary computation using BOINC + virtualization
Natural Computing: an international journal
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Desktop grids, which use the idle cycles of many desktop PCs, are one of the largest distributed systems in the world. Despite the popularity and success of many desktop grid projects, the heterogeneity and volatility of hosts within desktop grids have been poorly understood. Yet, resource characterization is essential for accurate simulation and modelling of such platforms. In this paper, we present application-level traces of four real desktop grids that can be used for simulation and modelling purposes. In addition, we describe aggregate and per host statistics that reflect the heterogeneity and volatility of desktop grid resources. Finally, we apply our characterization to develop a performance model for desktop grid applications for various task granularities, and then use a cluster equivalence metric to quantify the utility of the desktop grid relative to that of a dedicated cluster for task-parallel applications.