Simulation of Volunteer Computing in a Desktop Grid System
摘要
BOINC is a platform for volunteer computing (VC) developed by the University of California, Berkeley. It allows scientific workflows to be performed on non-dedicated devices. The benefits this platform provides include low cost and computational power which is comparable to that of supercomputers. BOINC development can be facilitated with help of hypothesis testing in simulators of volunteer computing. In this work one of them was explored which is stated to be the most complete BOINC simulator. We describe our experience with it, what modifications have been made and how it was validated using the real data gathered by RakeSearch project, along with running experiments in it.