NDLI: Performance Prediction and Analysis of BOINC Projects: An Empirical Study with EmBOINC

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Author	Estrada, Trilce Taufer, Michela Anderson, David P.
Copyright Year	2009
Abstract	Middleware systems for volunteer computing convert a set of computers that is large and diverse (in terms of hardware, software, availability, reliability, and trustworthiness) into a unified computing resource. This involves a number of scheduling policies and parameters, which have a large impact on the throughput and other performance metrics. How can we study and refine these policies? Experimentation in the context of a working project is problematic, and it is difficult to accurately model complex middleware in a conventional simulator. Instead, we use an approach in which the policies being studied are “emulated”, using parts of the actual middleware. In this paper we describe EmBOINC, an emulator based on the BOINC middleware system. EmBOINC simulates a population of volunteered clients (including heterogeneity, churn, availability, and reliability) and emulates the BOINC server components. After describing the design of EmBOINC and its validation, we present three case studies in which the impact of different scheduling policies are quantified in terms of throughput, latency, and starvation metrics.
Starting Page	537
Ending Page	554
Page Count	18
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15707873
Journal	Journal of Grid Computing
Volume Number	7
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	15729184
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2009-08-19
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Volunteer Computing Docking@Home World Community Grid Simulation Emulation User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction Management of Computing and Information Systems Processor Architectures
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Networks and Communications Information Systems Software Hardware and Architecture

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