TL;DR
BOINC is an open-source middleware platform that enables large-scale volunteer computing by harnessing consumer devices, addressing challenges like heterogeneity and unreliability to facilitate scientific research.
Contribution
This paper introduces BOINC, detailing its architecture and features, providing a comprehensive solution for scalable volunteer computing.
Findings
BOINC successfully supports large-scale scientific projects.
It manages device heterogeneity and unreliability effectively.
BOINC has been adopted widely in scientific communities.
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 challenges due to device heterogeneity, unreliability, and churn. BOINC, a widely-used open-source middleware system for volunteer computing, addresses these challenges. We describe its features, architecture, and implementation.
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