Abstract “Volunteer computing” is the use of consumer digital devices for high-throughput
scientific computing. It can provide large computing capacity at low cost, but presents …

Disclosed are the methods for Scheduling a task including at least one sub-task, on one or
more computing devices in a distributed computing environment. A set of computing devices …

Middleware systems for volunteer computing convert a set of computers that is large and
diverse (in terms of hardware, software, availability, reliability, and trustworthiness) into a …

Ephemeral computing is a term that describes computing systems whose nodes or their
connectivity have an ephemeral, heterogeneous and possibly also unpredictable nature …

Grids have been extensively deployed to handle various scientific and engineering
applications that can be structured as bag-of-tasks (BoT). The scheduling of BoT …

To enable decentralised actions in very large distributed systems, it is often important to
provide the nodes with global knowledge about the values of attributes across all nodes …

A new method for text retrieval that does not need segmentation is described. Segmenting
the images in historical documents into individual characters is difficult. Therefore, the …

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 scheduling of tasks with deadlines on clusters is a key issue for offering quality-of-
service (QoS) assurance. A critical challenge in real-time task scheduling is to handle …

BOINC is a platform for volunteer computing. The server component of BOINC embodies a
number of scheduling policies and parameters that have a large impact on the projects …