The Computational and Storage Potential of Volunteer Computing
<|reference_start|>The Computational and Storage Potential of Volunteer Computing: "Volunteer computing" uses Internet-connected computers, volunteered by their owners, as a source of computing power and storage. This paper studies the potential capacity of volunteer computing. We analyzed measurements of over 330,000 hosts participating in a volunteer computing project. These measurements include processing power, memory, disk space, network throughput, host availability, user-specified limits on resource usage, and host churn. We show that volunteer computing can support applications that are significantly more data-intensive, or have larger memory and storage requirements, than those in current projects.<|reference_end|>
@article{anderson2006the,
    title={The Computational and Storage Potential of Volunteer Computing},
    author={David P. Anderson, Gilles Fedak},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0602061},
    year={2006},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cs/0602061},
    primaryClass={cs.DC cs.PF}
}