(Universidad Icesi, 2006-10-11) Osorio Betancur, Juan David
This article explores the Public-Resource
Computing concept, an idea
that has been successfully developed
in the scientific community a few
years ago, which involves the use of
spare computational resources available
in the millions of PCs in the
world connected to Internet. We discuss
the SETI@home project, the
most successful example of this concept,
and we describe the BOINC
(Berkeley Open Infrastructure for
Network Computing) platform, a
software system created to make it
easy for scientist to create and operate
public-resource computing projects.
