Everything about Volunteer computing

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Volunteer computingA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: IoT-EMS: An Internet of Things Based Environment Monitoring System in Volunteer Computing EnvironmentInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Community, Competition and Citizen ScienceThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Sabotage-tolerance mechanisms for volunteer computing systemsCited 159 times
5. Go sideways: Grid computingA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Quasi-opportunistic supercomputingA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Sabotage-tolerance mechanisms for volunteer computing systems

  Luis F.G. Sarmenta · 2002 · Future Generation Computer Systems · 159 citations

• BOINC: A Platform for Volunteer Computing

  David P. Anderson · 2019 · Journal of Grid Computing · 111 citations

• Volunteer computing: requirements, challenges, and solutions

  Muhammad Nouman Durrani, Jawwad A. Shamsi · 2014 · Journal of Network and Computer Applications · 64 citations

• Survey and Taxonomy of Volunteer Computing

  Tessema M. Mengistu, Dunren Che · 2019 · ACM Computing Surveys · 52 citations

• Pulsar Discovery by Global Volunteer Computing

  B. Knispel, B. Allen, J. M. Cordes · 2010 · Science · 48 citations

• Computing Low Latency Batches with Unreliable Workers in Volunteer Computing Environments

  Eric Martin Heien, David P. Anderson, Kenichi Hagihara · 2009 · Journal of Grid Computing · 40 citations

• SETI@home, BOINC, and Volunteer Distributed Computing

  Eric J. Korpela · 2012 · Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences · 39 citations

• Volunteer computing

  David P. Anderson · 2010 · XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students · 38 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• IoT-EMS: An Internet of Things Based Environment Monitoring System in Volunteer Computing Environment

  Sourav Kumar Bhoi, Sanjaya Kumar Panda, Kalyan Kumar Jena · 2022 · Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing · 34 citations

• Volunteer Computing for fog scalability: A systematic literature review

  Enaam Abdulmonem Alshuaibi, Aisha Muhammad Hamdi, Farookh Khadeer Hussain · 2024 · Internet of Things · 13 citations

• A Volunteer Computing Architecture for Computational Workflows on Decentralized Web

  Alessia Antelmi, Giuseppe D’Ambrosio, Andrea Petta · 2022 · IEEE Access · 10 citations

• Research allocation in mobile volunteer computing system: Taxonomy, challenges and future work

  Peizhe Ma, Saurabh Garg, Mutaz Barika · 2024 · Future Generation Computer Systems · 8 citations

• A new approach for global task scheduling in volunteer computing systems

  Ehab Saleh, Chandrasekar Shastry · 2022 · International Journal of Information Technology · 6 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Community, Competition and Citizen ScienceAnne Holohan · 2013
• Mobilizing generation 2.0Ben Rigby · 2008
• 📕BOINCChristian Benjamin Ries · 2012
• Internship & volunteer opportunities for people who love all things digitalAnastasia Suen · 2013
• 📕Building the technological capacity of the voluntary sectorCanada. Industry Canada. VolNet National Advisory Committee. · 1999
• 📕VolNet delivery agency proposal guideCanada. Industry Canada. VolNet National Advisory Committee. · 1999
• 📕Community, Competition and Citizen ScienceAnne Holohan · 2016
• 📕Building the technological capacity of the voluntary sector : the Voluntary Sector Network Support Program (VolNet), National Advisory Committee report =Voluntary Sector Network Support Program (Canada) · 1999

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🔗 Related topics

• Grid computing Grid computing is the use of widely distributed computer resources to reach a common goal. A computing grid can be thought of as a distributed system with…
• Quasi-opportunistic supercomputing Quasi-opportunistic supercomputing is a computational paradigm for supercomputing on a large number of geographically disperse computers. Quasi-opportunistic…
• Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC, pronounced /bɔɪŋk/ –rhymes with "oink") is an open-source middleware system for volunteer…
• SETI@home SETI@home ("SETI at home") is a project of the Berkeley SETI Research Center to analyze radio signals with the aim of searching for signs of extraterrestrial…
• The Lattice Project The Lattice Project was a volunteer computing project that combined computing resources, Grid middleware, specialized scientific application software and…
• SLinCA@Home SLinCA@Home (Scaling Laws in Cluster Aggregation) was a research project that uses Internet-connected computers to do research in fields such as physics…
• BOINC Credit System Within the BOINC platform for volunteer computing, the BOINC Credit System helps volunteers keep track of how much CPU time they have donated to various…
• BOINC client–server technology BOINC client–server technology refers to the model under which BOINC works. The BOINC framework consists of two layers which operate under the client–server…