Title page for ETD etd-042006-225855

Document Type	thesis
Author Name	Baldassari, James D
Email Address	jbaldassari at gmail.com
URN	etd-042006-225855
Title	Design and Evaluation of a Public Resource Computing Framework
Degree	MS
Department	Computer Science
Advisors	David Finkel, Advisor Craig E. Wills, Reader Michael A. Gennert, Department Head
Keywords	distributed systems network computing volunteer computing public resource computing
Date of Presentation/Defense	2006-04-17
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract Public resource computing (PRC) is an innovative approach to high performance computing that relies on volunteers who donate their personal computers’ unused resources to a computationally intensive research project. Prominent PRC projects include SETI@home, Folding@Home, and distributed.net. Many PRC projects are built upon a PRC framework that abstracts functionality that is common to all PRC projects, such as network communications, database access, and project management. These PRC frameworks tend to be complex, limiting, and difficult to use. We have designed and implemented a new PRC framework called the Simple Light-weight Infrastructure for Network Computing (SLINC) that addresses the disadvantages we identified with existing frameworks. SLINC is a flexible and extensible PRC framework that will enable researchers to more easily build PRC projects.
Files	baldassari1.pdf baldassari2.zip

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