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CCGRID
2009
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Modeling Job Lifespan Delays in Volunteer Computing Projects
Volunteer Computing (VC) projects harness the power of computers owned by volunteers across the Internet to perform hundreds of thousands of independent jobs. In VC projects, the ...
Trilce Estrada, Michela Taufer, Kevin Reed
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ICCS
2009
Springer
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Balancing Scientist Needs and Volunteer Preferences in Volunteer Computing Using Constraint Optimization
BOINC is a middleware for Volunteer Computing. In BOINC projects, heterogeneous resources distributed across the Internet are used for large-scale scientific simulations. The larg...
James Atlas, Trilce Estrada, Keith Decker, Michela...
AINA
2007
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Un-biasing the Link Farm Effect in PageRank Computation
Link analysis is a critical component of current Internet search engines' results ranking software, which determines the ordering of query results returned to the user. The o...
Arnon Rungsawang, Komthorn Puntumapon, Bundit Mana...
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EUROPAR
2005
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Modeling Machine Availability in Enterprise and Wide-Area Distributed Computing Environments
In this paper, we consider the problem of modeling machine availability in enterprise-area and wide-area distributed computing settings. Using availability data gathered from three...
Daniel Nurmi, John Brevik, Richard Wolski
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FC
2005
Springer
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Secure Distributed Human Computation
We suggest a general paradigm of using large-scale distributed computation to solve difficult problems, but where humans can act as agents and provide candidate solutions. We are e...
Craig Gentry, Zulfikar Ramzan, Stuart G. Stubblebi...