BOINC: A Platform for Volunteer Computing

Understand

"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.