RT Journal Article
T1 Enabling BOINC in infrastructure as a service cloud system
A1 Pérez Montes, Diego
A1 Añel Cabanelas, Juan Antonio
A1 Fernández Pena, Anselmo Tomás
A1 Uhe, Peter
A1 Wallom, David C. H.
AB Volunteer or crowd computing is becoming increasingly popular for solving complex research problems from an increasingly diverse range of areas. The majority of these have been built using the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) platform, which provides a range of different services to manage all computation aspects of a project. The BOINC system is ideal in those cases where not only does the research community involved need low-cost access to massive computing resources but also where there is a significant public interest in the research being done.We discuss the way in which cloud services can help BOINC-based projects to deliver results in a fast, on demand manner. This is difficult to achieve using volunteers, and at the same time, using scalable cloud resources for short on demand projects can optimize the use of the available resources. We show how this design can be used as an efficient distributed computing platform within the cloud, and outline new approaches that could open up new possibilities in this field, using Climateprediction.net (http://www.climateprediction.net/) as a case study
PB Copernicus Publications
SN 1991-959X
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/17723
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/17723
LA eng
NO Montes, D., Añel, J. A., Pena, T. F., Uhe, P., and Wallom, D. C. H.: Enabling BOINC in infrastructure as a service cloud system, Geosci. Model Dev., 10, 811-826, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-811-2017, 2017
DS Minerva
RD 24 abr 2026