Volunteer Computing is a type of distributed computing in which ordinary people donate
their idle computer time to science projects like SETI@ Home, Climateprediction. net and
many others. In a similar way, Desktop Grid Computing is a form of distributed computing in
which an organization uses its existing computers to handle its own long-running
computational tasks. BOINC is the main middleware that provides a software platform for
Volunteer Computing and desktop grid computing, and it became generalized as a platform …