The Computational and Storage Potential of Volunteer Computing

Preprint

16 February 2006

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.cs/0602061

Abstract

"Volunteer computing" uses Internet-connected computers, volunteered by their owners, as a source of computing power and storage. This paper studies the potential capacity of volunteer computing. We analyzed measurements of over 330,000 hosts participating in a volunteer computing project. These measurements include processing power, memory, disk space, network throughput, host availability, user-specified limits on resource usage, and host churn. We show that volunteer computing can support applications that are significantly more data-intensive, or have larger memory and storage requirements, than those in current projects.

Keywords

VOLUNTEER COMPUTING
CONNECTED COMPUTERS
INTERNET CONNECTED
STORAGE POTENTIAL
PARTICIPATING
THROUGHPUT
MEMORY

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