Volunteer Computing is a kind of distributed computing that harnesses the aggregated spare
computing resources of volunteer devices. It provides a cheaper and greener alternative …

Volunteer computing, also known as public-resource computing, is a form of distributed
computing that relies on members of the public donating the processing power, Internet …

From close to scratch, the COVID-19 pandemic created the largest volunteer supercomputer
on earth. Sadly, processing resources assigned to the corresponding Folding@ home …

Elasticity is considered to be the most beneficial characteristic of cloud environments, which
distinguishes the cloud from clusters and grids. Whereas elasticity has become mainstream …

Satciety is a distributed parallel satisfiability (SAT) solver which focuses on tackling the
domain-specific problems inherent to one of the most challenging environments for parallel …

Desktop grid systems and applications have generated significant impacts on science and
engineering. The emerging convergence of grid and peer-to-peer (P2P) computing …

With the capability of employing virtually unlimited compute resources, the cloud evolved
into an attractive execution environment for applications from the High Performance …

Abstract Information aggregation is the process of summarizing information across the
nodes of a distributed system. We present a hierarchical information aggregation system …

We propose a suite of market-oriented task scheduling algorithms to build an AuctionNet for
heterogeneous distributed environments. In heterogeneous distributed environments …

Cloud resources can be dynamically provisioned according to application-specific
requirements and are payed on a per-use basis. This gives rise to a new concept for parallel …