Abstract SZTAKI Desktop Grid (SZDG) is an extension of BOINC in order to make it more
flexible, versatile and scalable in terms of enabling the interconnection of different BOINC …

Volunteer computing which benefits from idle cycles of volunteer resources over the Internet
can integrate the power of hundreds to thousands of resources to achieve high computing …

Desktop grids represent an alternative trend in grid computing using the same software
infrastructure as volunteer computing projects, such as BOINC. Applications to be deployed …

Volunteer computing projects (VCPs) have been set up by groups of scientists to recruit
members of the public who are asked to donate spare capacity on their personal computers …

Desktop Grids harvest the computing power of idle desktop computers whether these are
volunteer or deployed at an institution. Allowing foreign applications to run on these …

A computational grid essentially represents a dynamic and distributed environment. Unlike,
a tightlycoupled parallel computing environment, high performance computing on a grid is a …

Desktop grids as opposed to service grids are the cost-effective way to gather large amount
of volunteer computing resources for solving scientific problems. It is possible to create …

Although clusters usually represent a single large resource for grid computing, most of the
time they are utilized as individual resources for desktop grids. This chapter presents a …

One of the main challenges in peer-to-peer-based volunteer computing systems is an
efficient resource discovery algorithm. Load balancing is a part of resource discovery …

Grid architecture is one of the cornerstones for successful development and proliferation of
Grid computing. The scale, dynamism and openness of the Grid, together with demands on …