Introduction to the art and science of simulation
Proceedings of the 30th conference on Winter simulation
Simgrid: A Toolkit for the Simulation of Application Scheduling
CCGRID '01 Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
CLADE '04 Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments
Introduction to simulation: introduction to simulation
Proceedings of the 34th conference on Winter simulation: exploring new frontiers
Proceedings of the 35th conference on Winter simulation: driving innovation
BOINC: A System for Public-Resource Computing and Storage
GRID '04 Proceedings of the 5th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing
IPDPS '05 Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'05) - Workshop 1 - Volume 02
The Computational and Storage Potential of Volunteer Computing
CCGRID '06 Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
Scheduling task parallel applications for rapid turnaround on desktop grids
Scheduling task parallel applications for rapid turnaround on desktop grids
Predictor@Home: A "Protein Structure Prediction Supercomputer' Based on Global Computing
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
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
A distributed evolutionary method to design scheduling policies for volunteer computing
Proceedings of the 5th conference on Computing frontiers
A distributed evolutionary method to design scheduling policies for volunteer computing
ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review
Fast and scalable simulation of volunteer computing systems using SimGrid
Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
Estimation of MPI application performance on volunteer environments
Euro-Par'11 Proceedings of the 2011 international conference on Parallel Processing
Scalable Multi-purpose Network Representation for Large Scale Distributed System Simulation
CCGRID '12 Proceedings of the 2012 12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (ccgrid 2012)
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SimBA (Simulator of BOINC Applications) is a discrete event simulator that models the main functions of BOINC, which is a well-known framework used in Volunteer Computing (VC) projects. SimBA simulates the generation and distribution of tasks that are executed in a highly volatile, heterogeneous, and distributed environment as well as the collection and validation of completed tasks. To understand the strengths and weaknesses of BOINC under distinct scenarios, project designers want to study and quantify project performance without negatively affecting people in the VC community. Although this is not possible on production systems, it is possible using SimBA, which is capable of testing a wide range of hypotheses in a short period of time. Our experience to date indicates that SimBA is a reliable tool for performance prediction of VC projects. Preliminary results show that SimBA's predictions of Predictor@ Home performance are within approximately 5% of the performance reported by this BOINC project.