" 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 …

Global Computing platforms, large scale clusters and future TeraGRID systems gather
thousands of nodes for computing parallel scientific applications. At this scale, node failures …

A new era of Cloud Computing has emerged, but the characteristics of Cloud load in data
centers is not perfectly clear. Yet this characterization is critical for the design of novel Cloud …

(57) ABSTRACT A system and method for providing grid computing on a network of
computing nodes, which includes a configurable service container executable at the nodes …

Large-scale distributed computing environments provide a vast amount of heterogeneous
computing resources from different sources for resource sharing and distributed computing …

Computational grids that couple geographically distributed resources are becoming the de-
facto computing platform for solving large-scale problems in science, engineering, and …

Volunteer computing is a form of distributed computing in which the general public
volunteers processing and storage to scientific research projects. BOINC, a middleware …

In this paper, we present the design of Aneka, a. NET based service-oriented platform for
desktop grid computing that provides:(i) a configurable service container hosting pluggable …

The success of grid computing in open environments like the Internet is highly dependent on
the adoption of mechanisms to detect failures and malicious sabotage attempts. It is also …

This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Background Desktop Grid Middleware
Considerations Representation Desktop Grid System Alchemi Desktop Grid Framework …