NDLI: Towards Real-Time Result Verification Using Checkpointing in Volunteer Computing Systems

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Durrani, M.N. Iqbal, T. Shamsi, J.A. Khan, N.K.
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	Volunteer Computing is a form of network based distributed computing, which allows public participants to share their idle computing resources, and helps run computationally expensive projects. Many existing volunteer computing platforms consist of millions of users, providing huge amount of memory and processing. Due to the rapid growth in the volunteer computing projects, more researchers have been attracted to study and improve the existing volunteer computing system using heterogeneous set of resources. Also, the task distribution and result verification policies incorporated in the popular volunteer computing frameworks are not efficient because much of the user computation is wasted. This paper highlights the drawbacks of existing schemes and proposes a framework for real-time task division, distribution, early detection and mitigation of faults in a volunteer computing system. The main motivation behind this research is to devise a methodology that reduces the overhead incurred by replication. The check pointing scheme proposed triggers intermediate result verification and the grouping of resources aids in the efficient scheduling of work units which improves accuracy of the volunteer cloud. The research will enable the research community to study the available schemes used in volunteer computing and help them fill gaps in existing research.
Starting Page	218
Ending Page	227
File Size	612420
Page Count	10
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781479987818
ISSN	15550885
DOI	10.1109/ISORC.2015.31
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2015-04-13
Publisher Place	New Zealand
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Servers Real-time systems Checkpointing Processor scheduling Databases Scheduling Reliability checkpointing threshold volunteer computing task distribution result verification partial results
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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