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Parallel Computations in the Volunteer–Based Comcute System

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Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics (PPAM 2013)

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The paper presents Comcute which is a novel multi-level implementation of the volunteer based computing paradigm. Comcute was designed to let users donate the computing power of their PCs in a simplified manner, requiring only pointing their web browser at a specific web address and clicking a mouse. The server side appoints several servers to be in charge of execution of particular tasks. Thanks to that the system can survive failures of individual computers and allow definition of redundancy of desired order. On the client side, computations are executed within web browsers using technologies such as Java, JavaScript, Adobe Flash etc. without the need for installation of additional software. This paper presents results of scalability experiments carried on the Comcute system.

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    http://boinc.berkeley.edu/

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    http://comcute.eti.pg.gda.pl

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    http://hadoop.apache.org/

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Acknowledgments

The work was performed within grant “Modeling efficiency, reliability and power consumption of multilevel parallel HPC systems using CPUs and GPUs” sponsored by and covered by funds from the National Science Center in Poland based on decision no DEC-2012/07/B/ST6/01516.

We would like to thank W. Korlub for his help in the environment configuration.

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  1. Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics, Gdansk University of Technology, Gdańsk, Poland

    Paweł Czarnul, Jarosław Kuchta & Mariusz Matuszek

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  1. Institute of Computer and Information Science, Czestochowa University of Technology, Czestochowa, Poland

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  2. University of Tennessee, Department of Computer Science, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA

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  3. Institute of Computer and Information Science, Czestochowa University of Technology, Czestochowa, Poland

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  4. Technical University of Denmark Informatics and Mathematical Modelling, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark

    Jerzy Waśniewski

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Czarnul, P., Kuchta, J., Matuszek, M. (2014). Parallel Computations in the Volunteer–Based Comcute System. In: Wyrzykowski, R., Dongarra, J., Karczewski, K., Waśniewski, J. (eds) Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics. PPAM 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8384. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55224-3_25

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