[[PageOutline]] = Papers and talks on volunteer computing = == Technical papers involving BOINC == === High level === * David P. Anderson. 5th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing. [http://boinc.berkeley.edu/grid_paper_04.pdf BOINC: A System for Public-Resource Computing and Storage]. November 8, 2004, Pittsburgh, USA. (Also available in [http://boinc.oocp.org/grid_paper_04.html Japanese]) * Derrick Kondo, Bahman Javadi, Paul Malecot, Franck Cappello and David Anderson. [http://mescal.imag.fr/membres/derrick.kondo/pubs/kondo_hcw09.pdf Cost-Benefit Analysis of Cloud Computing versus Desktop Grids]. 18th International Heterogeneity in Computing Workshop, May 25 2009, Rome. * D. Toth [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228974511_Volunteer_computing_with_video_game_consoles Volunteer Computing with Video Game Consoles]. Proceedings of the 6th WSEAS International Conference on Software Engineering, Parallel and Distributed Systems (SEPADS 2007), February 16-19, 2007, Corfu, Greece. === Runtime system === * David P. Anderson, Carl Christensen and Bruce Allen. [http://boinc.berkeley.edu/boinc_papers/api/text.pdf Designing a Runtime System for Volunteer Computing]. Supercomputing '06 (The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis), Tampa, November 2006. === Server software === * David P. Anderson, Eric Korpela, Rom Walton. [http://boinc.berkeley.edu/boinc_papers/server_perf/server_perf.pdf High-Performance Task Distribution for Volunteer Computing]. First IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Technologies. 5-8 December 2005, Melbourne === Scheduling === * David P. Anderson. [https://boinc.berkeley.edu/boinc_papers/pcgrid_11/p2.pdf Emulating Volunteer Computing Scheduling Policies]. Fifth Workshop on Desktop Grids and Volunteer Computing Systems (PCGrid 2011), Anchorage (Alaska), May 20, 2011. * Trilce Estrada, Michela Taufer, Kevin Reed. [http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.524.5754&rep=rep1&type=pdf Modeling Job Lifespan Delays in Volunteer Computing Projects]. 9th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, 2009. * Adam L. Bazinet, Michael P. Cummings. [http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10723-015-9348-5 Subdividing Long-Running, Variable-Length Analyses Into Short, Fixed-Length BOINC Workunits]. Journal of Grid Computing, September 2015. * Eric M. Heien, David P. Anderson, and Kenichi Hagihara. [http://boinc.berkeley.edu/heien_09.pdf Computing Low Latency Batches with Unreliable Workers in Volunteer Computing Environments]. Journal of Grid Computing 7(4) Dec. 2009, p. 501-518. * Trilce Estrada, Michela Taufer, David Anderson. [http://boinc.berkeley.edu/estrada_09.pdf Performance Prediction and Analysis of BOINC Projects: An Empirical Study with EmBOINC]. J Grid Computing (2009) 7: 537. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10723-009-9126-3 * James Atlas, Trilce Estrada, Keith Decker, Michela Taufer. [http://gcl.cis.udel.edu/publications/conferences/009ICCS/paper.pdf Balancing Scientist Needs and Volunteer Preferences in Volunteer Computing Using Constraint Optimization]. ICCS 2009. * Trilce Estrada, Michela Taufer, Kevin Reed, David Anderson. EmBOINC: An Emulator for Performace Analysis of BOINC Projects. 3rd Workshop on Desktop Grids and Volunteer Computing Systems (PCGrid 2009), May 29, 2009, Rome. * Derrick Kondo, David P. Anderson and John !McLeod VII. [http://boinc.berkeley.edu/boinc_papers/client_sch_eval/client_sch_eval.pdf Performance Evaluation of Scheduling Policies for Volunteer Computing]. 3rd IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing. Banagalore, India, December 10-13 2007. * David P. Anderson and John !McLeod VII. [http://boinc.berkeley.edu/boinc_papers/sched/paper.pdf Local Scheduling for Volunteer Computing]. Workshop on Large-Scale, Volatile Desktop Grids (PCGrid 2007) held in conjunction with the IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), March 30, 2007, Long Beach. * Trilce Estrada, David A. Flores, Michela Taufer, Patricia J. Teller, Andre Kerstens, David P. Anderson. [http://gcl.cis.udel.edu/publications/conferences/006escience_testrada.pdf The Effectiveness of Threshold-Based Scheduling Policies in BOINC Projects]. Second IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing (e-Science'06), p. 88. * M. Taufer, A. Kerstens, T. Estrada, D.A. Flores, and P.J. Teller: SimBA: a Discrete Event Simulator for Performance Prediction of Volunteer Computing Projects. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation 2007 (PADS'07), June 2007, San Diego, California, USA. * M. Taufer, A. Kerstens, T. Estrada, D.A. Flores, R. Zamudio, P.J. Teller, R. Armen, and C.L. Brooks III: [https://gcl.cis.udel.edu/publications/conferences/007pcgrid_mtaufer.pdf Moving Volunteer Computing towards Knowledge-Constructed, Dynamically-Adaptive Modeling and Scheduling]. Proceedings of the First Workshop on Large-Scale, Volatile Desktop Grids (PCGrid'07), in conjunction with IPDPS'07 March 2007, Long Beach, California, USA. * D. Toth [http://www.merrimack.edu/~dtoth/papers_and_slides/631-005_PDCS_2008.pdf The Impact of Multi-Core Architectures on Task Retrieval Policies for Volunteer Computing]. Proceedings of The 20th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems - PDCS 2008, November 16-18, 2008, pp. 330-335, Orlando, Florida, USA. * D. Toth and D. Finkel [http://www.merrimack.edu/~dtoth/papers_and_slides/PCGrid_2008.pdf Increasing the Amount of Work Completed by Volunteer Computing Projects with Task Distribution Policies]. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Desktop Grids and Volunteer Computing Systems (PCGrid 2008), in conjunction with IPDPS'08, April 18, 2008, Miami, Florida, USA. * Toth, D. & Finkel, D. Improving the Productivity of Volunteer Computing by Using the Most Effective Task Retrieval Policies. J Grid Computing (2009) 7: 519. * Chernov, I., N. Nikitina, and E. Ivashka. [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321486771_Task_Scheduling_in_Desktop_Grids_Open_Problems Task Scheduling in Desktop Grids: Open Problems]. Open Engineering. Volume 7, Issue 1. Dec. 2017. === Integration with Grid and other systems === * Farkas, Z., P. Kacsuk, Z. Balaton, and G. Gombas. Interoperability of BOINC and EGEE. Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 26, Issue 8, October 2010, Pages 1092-1103. * Attila Marosi, Jozsef Kovacs, Peter Kacsuk. [http://boinc.berkeley.edu/toward_a_volunteer_cloud.pdf Towards a volunteer cloud system]. Future Generation Computer Systems 29 (2014) 1442-1451. * Kacsuk, P., Z. Farkas, and G. Fedak. Toward Making BOINC and EGEE Interoperable. 2008 IEEE Fourth International Conference on eScience. 7-12 Dec 2008. * Adam Visegradi, Jozsef Kovacs, and Peter Kacsuk. [http://boinc.berkeley.edu/efficient_extension_of_glite_vos.pdf Efficient extension of gLite VOs with BOINC based desktop grids]. Future Generation Computer Systems 32 (2014) 13-23. * Jozsef Kovacs, Peter Kacsuk, Andre Lomaka. [http://boinc.berkeley.edu/using_a_private_desktop_grid.pdf Using a private desktop grid system for accelerating drug discovery]. Future Generation Computer Systems 27 (2011) 657-666. * Lopez-Perez, Juan Antonio. [http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/1115355 Distributed computing and farm management with application to the search for heavy gauge bosons using the ATLAS experiment at the LHC]. PhD thesis, Jan. 2008. * Myers, D. S., A. L. Bazinet and M. P. Cummings. 2008. [http://lattice.umiacs.umd.edu/files/myers_bazinet_cummings.pdf Expanding the reach of Grid computing: combining Globus- and BOINC-based systems]. Pages 71-85. In Talbi, E.-G. and A. Zomaya (Eds.) Grids for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Wiley Book Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing. John Wiley & Sons, New York. * Artur Andrzejak, Derrick Kondo and David P. Anderson. [http://mescal.imag.fr/membres/derrick.kondo/pubs/andrzejak_noms10.pdf Exploiting Non-Dedicated Resources for Cloud Computing]. 12th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations & Management Symposium (NOMS 2010), Osaka, Japan April 19-23, 2010. * Jakob Gregor Pedersen & Christian Ulrik Søttrup. [http://www.fatbat.dk/thesis/ Developing Distributed Computing Solutions Combining Grid Computing and Public Computing]. Master's thesis from University of Copenhagen. March 2005. (Describes tools for transparently moving jobs between Condor and BOINC.) * A. Marosi, G. Gombas, Z. Balaton, P. Kacsuk. [http://www.coregrid.net/mambo/images/stories/TechnicalReports/tr-0100.pdf SZTAKI Desktop Grid: Building a Scalable, Secure Platform for Desktop Grid Computing]. CoreGRID Technical Report TR-100, 2008. === Data distribution === * D. Toth and D. Finkel. [http://www.merrimack.edu/~dtoth/papers_and_slides/pdcs05.pdf A Comparison of Techniques for Distributing File-based Tasks for Public-Resource Computing]. Proceedings of The 17th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems - PDCS 2005, November 14-16, 2005, pp. 398-403, Phoenix, Arizona, USA. * Costa, F., L. Silva, G. Fedak and I. Kelley. Optimizing the data distribution layer of BOINC with Bittorrent. 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing 14-18 April 2008, Miami. * Elwaer, A., A. Harrison, I. Kelley, and I. Taylor. Attic: A Case Study for Distributing Data in BOINC Projects. IEEE Ninth International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications Workshops, Busan, South Korea, May 2011. === Host studies === * Derrick Kondo, Artur Andrzejak, and David P. Anderson. On Correlated Availability in Internet-Distributed Systems. 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid 2008), Tsukuba, Japan, Sept 29 - Oct 1 2008. * Anderson D.P., Reed K. Celebrating diversity in volunteer computing. HICSS-42 Conference; Waikoloa, Big Island, HI. 2009. * Eric Heien, Derrick Kondo, David P. Anderson. A Correlated Resource Model of Internet End Hosts. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems 23(6), June 2012, 977-984. * Eric Heien, Derrick Kondo, David P. Anderson. [http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/53/89/32/PDF/model_synth.pdf Correlated Resource Models of Internet End Hosts] 31st International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, 2011. * Bahman Javadi, Derrick Kondo, Jean-Marc Vincent, David P. Anderson. [http://mescal.imag.fr/membres/derrick.kondo/pubs/javadi_tpds10.pdf Discovering Statistical Models of Availability in Large Distributed Systems: An Empirical Study of SETI@home.] IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems 22(11), Nov. 2011, 1896-1903. * Bahman Javadi, Derrick Kondo, Jean-Marc Vincent, David P. Anderson. [http://mescal.imag.fr/membres/derrick.kondo/pubs/javadi_mascots09.pdf Mining for Statistical Models of Availability in Large-Scale Distributed Systems: An Empirical Study of SETI@home.] 17th Annual Meeting of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modelling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, Sept 21-23 2009, London. * David P. Anderson and Gilles Fedak IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, [http://boinc.berkeley.edu/boinc_papers/internet/paper.pdf The Computational and Storage Potential of Volunteer Computing]. Singapore, May 16-19, 2006. * D. Toth and D. Finkel [http://www.merrimack.edu/~dtoth/papers_and_slides/SEPADS_2007_540-126.pdf Characterizing Resource Availability for Volunteer Computing and its Impact on Task Distribution Methods]. Proceedings of the 6th WSEAS International Conference on Software Engineering, Parallel and Distributed Systems (SEPADS 2007), February 16-19, 2007, Corfu, Greece. === Volunteer studies === * Oded Nov, Ofer Arazy, and David Anderson. Scientists@Home and in the Backyard: Understanding the Motivations of Contributors to Digital Citizen Science. Economics of Networks eJournal. Vol. 2, No. 108: Sep 10, 2010. * Oded Nov, Ofer Arazy, and David Anderson. Technology-Mediated Citizen Science Participation: A Motivational Model. Fifth International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM 2011), Barcelona, July 17-21 2011. * Oded Nov, Ofer Arazy, and David P. Anderson. Crowdsourcing for science: understanding and enhancing !SciSourcing contribution. The Changing Dynamics of Scientific Collaborations, workshop at CSCW 2010, Savannah GA, Feb. 7 2010. * Oded Nov, David Anderson, and Ofer Arazy. Volunteer Computing: A Model of the Factors Determining Contribution to Community-based Scientific Research. Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on World Wide Web, 2010. * D. Toth. “Increasing Participation in Volunteer Computing”. IEEE Parallel and Distributed Processing Workshops and Phd Forum (IPDPSW), Shanghai, 16-20 May 2011, pp 1878-1882. === MPI emulation === * Nagarajan Kanna, Jaspal Subhlok, Edgar Gabriel, Eshwar Rohit and David Anderson. A Communication Framework for Fault-tolerant Parallel Execution. The 22nd International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, Newark, Delaware, Oct 8-10 2009. === Result validation === * M. Taufer, D. Anderson, P. Cicotti, C.L. Brooks III. [http://gcl.cis.udel.edu/publications/conferences/005hcw_mtaufer.pdf Homogeneous Redundancy: a Technique to Ensure Integrity of Molecular Simulation Results Using Public Computing]. From 19th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'05) Heterogeneous Computing Workshop. April 4 2005, Denver CO. === Other === * C.B. Ries and V. Grout, [http://christianbenjaminries.de/research/2013SCSE.pdf Code Generation Approaches for an Automatic Transformation of the Unified Modeling Language to the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing Framework], in Proc. International Conference on Soft Computing and Software Engineering (SCSE'13), San Francisco (USA): SF State University * C.B. Ries, C. Schröder, and V. Grout, [http://christianbenjaminries.de/research/Approach-of-Ries.pdf Model-based Generation of Workunits, Computation Sequences, Series and Service Interfaces for BOINC based Projects], in Proc. International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practice (SERP'12), part of WORLDCOMP'12, USA, Las Vegas, July, 2012 * C.B. Ries, C. Schröder, and V. Grout, [http://www.christianbenjaminries.de/research/Approach-of-Ries.pdf A UML Profile for the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC)], in Proc. IEEE Conference on Computer Applications and Industrial Electronics (ICCAIE 2011), Malaysia, Penang, December, 2011 * C.B. Ries, C. Schröder, and V. Grout, [http://www.christianbenjaminries.de/research/SEIN2011.pdf Generation of an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC)], in Proc. Seventh Collaborative Research Symposium on Security, E-learning, Internet and Networking (SEIN 2011), Germany, Furtwangen, October, 2011 * Marcin Cieslak. [http://boinc.berkeley.edu/cieslak.pdf BOINC on JXTA] (Thesis from Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland). == Project-specific papers == * Barranco, J., Cai, Y., Cameron, D., et al. LHC@Home: a BOINC-based volunteer computing infrastructure for physics studies at CERN. Open Engineering, Volume 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 379–393. * Travis Desell, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Boleslaw Szymanski, Carlos Varela, Heidi Newberg, and David Anderson. Validating Evolutionary Algorithms on Volunteer Computing Grids. The 10th IFIP international conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems, June 7-10 2010, Amsterdam. * Travis Desell, David Anderson, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Heidi Newberg, Boleslaw Szymanski and Carlos Varela. An Analysis of Massively Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms. 2010 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. July 18-23 2010, Barcelona. * Stephen Pellicer, Yi Pan and Minyi Guo. Distributed MD4 Password Hashing with Grid Computing Package BOINC. Grid and Cooperative Computing – GCC 2004. Third International Conference Wuhan, China, October 21-24, 2004 Proceedings. * Alejandro J. M. Repetto. [http://boinc.berkeley.edu/2010-IITSEC-10216.pdf Hybrid Architecture for Constructive Interactive Simulation: Evaluation and Outcomes]. !Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) 2010. * Christian Benjamin Ries and Christian Schröder, COMSOL Multiphysics Conference, [http://christianbenjaminries.de/research/PAPER-COMSOL_Conference_2010-Ries-Schroeder.pdf ComsolGrid - A framework for performing large-scale parameter studies using Comsol Multiphysics and Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC)]. Proceedings of the COMSOL Conference, ISBN: 978-0-9825697-6-4, France, Paris, 2010 * Christian Benjamin Ries, Thomas Hilbig, and Christian Schröder, [http://www.christianbenjaminries.de/research/Ries-IMCSIT2010.pdf A Modeling Language Approach for the Abstraction of the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) Framework], in Proc. IEEE International Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Technology (IMCSIT), Poland, Wisla, October, 2010 * Ignacio J. General, Eliana K. Asciutto and Jeffry D. Madura. Science@Duquesne: [http://dx.doi.org/10.1021%2Fjp806269w Structure of Aqueous Sodium Perchlorate Solutions], J. Phys. Chem. B, 2008, 112 (48), pp 15417–15425. * Stephen Pellicer, Nova Ahmed, Yi Pan, and Yao Zheng. [http://boinc.berkeley.edu/Pellicer2005.pdf Gene Sequence Alignment on a Public Computing Platform]. Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops (ICPP@'05), 2005. * [http://www.climateprediction.net/science/pubs/cpdn-computing.pdf The Challenge of Volunteer Computing With Lengthy Climate Model Simulations]. Carl Christensen, Tolu Aina and David Stainforth. First IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Technologies. 5-8 December 2005, Melbourne * [http://research.microsoft.com/research/pubs/view.aspx?msr_tr_id=MSR-TR-2007-17 Reporting@Home: Delivering Dynamic Graphical Feedback to Participants in Community Computing Projects]. Stuart Ozer, David E. Kim, David Baker (Microsoft Research Technical report MSR-TR-2007-17). == Other papers on volunteer computing == === Overview === * Nouman M. Durrani, Jawwad Shamsi. Volunteer computing: requirements, challenges, and solutions. J. Network and Computer Applications, 2014 * Tomasz Fabisiak and Arkadiusz Danilecki. Browser-based harnessing of voluntary computational power. Foundations of Computing and Decision Sciences 42.1 (Mar. 4, 2017), pages 3–42. === Simulation === * Fast and scalable simulation of volunteer computing systems using !SimGrid. Bruno Donassolo, Henri Casanova, Arnaud Legrand, Pedro Velho. HPDC, 2010 === Result validation === * Sarmenta, L.F.G. Sabotage-tolerance mechanisms for volunteer computing systems. Future Gener. Comput. Syst. 18(4), 561–572 (2002) * Sonnek, J., Chandra, A. Weissman, J. Adaptive Reputation-Based Scheduling on Unreliable Distributed Intrastrucutres IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 18 (11), Nov. 2007. * Silaghi, G. , Araujo, F. , Domingues, P. , Silva, L. M. , Arenas, A. [http://epubs.cclrc.ac.uk/bitstream/2002/PCGrid2008-final.pdf Defeating Colluding Nodes in Desktop Grid Computing Platforms]. in Proceedings of the 22nd IPDPS conference, PCGrid2008 workshop, Miami, USA, April 2008. * Golle, P. and I. Mironov. Uncheatable Distributed Computations. Proceedings of the 2001 Conference on Topics in Cryptology: The Cryptographer's Track at RSA. P. 425-440. April 08 - 12, 2001. * Christoforou, E., A. Anta, C. Georgiou, and M. Mosteiro. Algorithmic Mechanisms for Reliable Master-Worker Internet-Based Computing. IEEE Transactions on Computers 63(1):179-195 · January 2014 * W. Du, J. Jia, M. Mangal, and M. Murugesan. Uncheatable grid computing. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 26:1–8, 2004. === Other systems === * Sarmenta, L. and S. Hirano. Bayanihan: building and studying web-based volunteer computing systems using Java Future Generation Computer Systems. Volume 15 Issue 5-6, Oct. 1999. Pages 675-686 * James Baldassari, David Finkel, and David Toth. [http://www.merrimack.edu/~dtoth/papers_and_slides/513-046.pdf SLINC: A Framework for Volunteer Computing], Proceedings of the 18th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems - PDCS 2006, November 13-15, 2006, Dallas, Texas, USA. * T. MacWilliam and C. Cecka. CrowdCL: Web-based volunteer computing with WebCL. In High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC), 2013 IEEE, pages 1–6, September 2013. * Baratloo, M. Karaui, Z.M. Kedem, P. Wijckoff. Charlotte: Metacomputing on the Web. Future Generation Computer Systems Volume 15, Issues 5–6, October 1999, Pages 559-570 * Tomasz Fabisiak and Arkadiusz Danilecki Browser-based Harnessing of Voluntary Computational Power. Foundations of Computing and Decision Sciences: The Journal of Poznan University of Technology. Volume 42: Issue 1, 04 Mar 2017 * Chorazyk, P., M. Godzik, K. Pietak, and A. Byrski. Lightweight Volunteer Computing Platform using Web Workers. Procedia Computer Science 108:948-957· December 2017 * Bernd O. Christiansen, Peter Cappello, Mihai F. Ionescu, Michael O. Neary, Klaus E. Schauser, and Daniel Wu. Javelin: Internet-based parallel computing using Java. Concurrency: Practice and Experience 9.11 (1997), pages 1139– 1160. * John P Morrison, James J Kennedy, and David A Power. Webcom: A Web Based Volunteer Computer. The Journal of Supercomputing 18.1 (2001), pages 47–61 === Cost === * Simon Ostermann, A. Iosup, N. Yigitbasi, R. Prodan, T. Fahringer, D. Epema. “A Performance Analysis of EC2 Cloud Computing Services for Scientific Computing”. Cloud Computing - Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering Volume 34, 2010, pp. 115-131. === Scheduling === * Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda, Assaf Schuster, Artyom Sharov, Mark Silberstein, and Alexandru Iosup. Expert: Pareto-efficient task replication on grids and a cloud. IEEE Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), pages 167–178. 2012. * I. Chernov. Theoretical study of replication in desktop grid computing: Minimizing the mean cost. Proceedings of the 2nd Applications in Information Technology (ICAIT-2016), Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, pages 125–129. * Kan Watanabe, Masaru Fukushi, Susumu Horiguchi. Optimal Spot-checking to minimize the Computation Time in Volunteer Computing. Proceedings of the 22nd IPDPS conference, PCGrid2008 workshop, Miami, USA, April 2008. * Liu, C.L. and J.W. Layland. Scheduling algorithms for multiprogramming in a hard-real-time environment. Journal of the ACM 20,1 (1973), 46-61. === P2P data distribution === * G. Chmaj, K. Walkowiak, M. Tarnawski, and M. Kucharzak. Heuristic algorithms for optimization of task allocation and result distribution in peer-to-peer computing systems. International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, 22(3):733–748, 2012. == Talks on video == * [http://www.liftconference.com/distributed-computing-distributed-thinking Francois Grey at Lift, Feb 2008] * [http://youtube.com/watch?v=GzATbET3g54 David Baker talks about Rosetta@home] * [http://youtube.com/watch?v=8iSRLIK-x6A David Anderson talks about the origins of BOINC] (2006) == Powerpoint == * [http://boinc.berkeley.edu/talks/workshop_14.pdf A Brief History of BOINC], talk at the 10th BOINC Workshop, 29 Sept 2014, Budapest. * [http://boinc.berkeley.edu/talks/ipdps_07_kn.pdf Volunteer Computing: Planting the Flag], keynote address at the PCGrid 2007 workshop held at the IPDPS conference, March 30, 2007. * [http://boinc.berkeley.edu/talks/ipdps_07_sched.pdf Talk on client scheduling] at the PCGrid 2007 workshop held at the IPDPS conference, March 30, 2007. * [http://boinc.berkeley.edu/talks/singapore_public.pdf A Million Years of Computing], talk at the Singapore National Library, May 2006. == Popular articles == * [http://boinc.berkeley.edu/boinc2.pdf Public Computing: Reconnecting People to Science]. David P. Anderson. Conference on Shared Knowledge and the Web. Residencia de Estudiantes, Madrid, Spain, Nov. 17-19 2003. (A paper about BOINC's goals. Also available in [http://boinc.berkeley.edu/madrid.html HTML], [http://boinc.de/madrid_de.htm HTML/German], [http://www.seti.nl/content.php?c=boinc_berkeley_madrid HTML/Dutch], [http://boinc.oocp.org/madrid.html Japanese]). * [http://boinc.berkeley.edu/distributing_science_final.pdf Distributing Science], by D. Carroll, C. Rahmlow, T. Psiaki, and G. Wojtaszczyk, July 2005. * [http://boinc.berkeley.edu/talks/ihep_12.pdf Using volunteered resources for data-intensive computing and storage], Institute for High Energy Physics, Beijing, April 2012. == Books == * C.B. Ries, [http://www.springer.com/computer/swe/book/978-3-642-23382-1 BOINC - Hochleistungsrechnen mit Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing], Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, ISBN: 978-3-642-23282 == PhD Thesis == * C.B. Ries [http://christianbenjaminries.de/dissertation/PhD-Thesis-Christian_Benjamin_Ries-2013.pdf UML for BOINC: A Modelling Language Approach for the Development of Distributed Applications based on the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing], Ph.D. dissertation, Glyndwr University of Wales (UK), Department of Computing (approx. 12 MB, pdf)