Papers and talks on BOINC

Here's a list of conferences related to volunteer computing.

Slides from talks on BOINC

• Volunteer Computing: Planting the Flag, keynote address at the PCGrid 2007 workshop held at the IPDPS conference, March 30, 2007.
• Talk on client scheduling at the PCGrid 2007 workshop held at the IPDPS conference, March 30, 2007.
• A Million Years of Computing, talk at the Singapore National Library, May 2006.
• Talk at Condor Week , Madison WI, April 2006.

Popular articles

• 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 HTML, ​HTML/German, ​HTML/Dutch, ​Japanese).
• Distributing Science, by D. Carroll, C. Rahmlow, T. Psiaki, and G. Wojtaszczyk, July 2005.

Technical papers

• Performance Evaluation of Scheduling Policies for Volunteer Computing. Derrick Kondo, David P. Anderson and John McLeod VII. 3rd IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing. Banagalore, India, December 10-13 2007.
• Local Scheduling for Volunteer Computing. David P. Anderson and John McLeod VII. 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.
• Designing a Runtime System for Volunteer Computing. David P. Anderson, Carl Christensen and Bruce Allen. Supercomputing '06 (The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis), Tampa, November 2006.
• The Effectiveness of Threshold-Based Scheduling Policies in BOINC Projects. Trilce Estrada, David A. Flores, Michela Taufer, Patricia J. Teller, Andre Kerstens, David P. Anderson. Second IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing (e-Science'06), p. 88.
• The Computational and Storage Potential of Volunteer Computing. David P. Anderson and Gilles Fedak IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid, Singapore, May 16-19, 2006.
• ​A Comparison of Techniques for Distributing File-based Tasks for Public-Resource Computing. D. Toth and D. Finkel. 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.
• High-Performance Task Distribution for Volunteer Computing. David P. Anderson, Eric Korpela, Rom Walton First IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Technologies. 5-8 December 2005, Melbourne
• ​Homogeneous Redundancy: a Technique to Ensure Integrity of Molecular Simulation Results Using Public Computing. M. Taufer, D. Anderson, P. Cicotti, C.L. Brooks III. From 19th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'05) Heterogeneous Computing Workshop. April 4 2005, Denver CO.
• ​Developing Distributed Computing Solutions Combining Grid Computing and Public Computing. Jakob Gregor Pedersen & Christian Ulrik Søttrup. Master's thesis from University of Copenhagen. March 2005. (Describes tools for transparently moving jobs between Condor and BOINC.)
• Distributed MD4 Password Hashing with Grid Computing Package BOINC. Stephen Pellicer, Yi Pan and Minyi Guo. Grid and Cooperative Computing – GCC 2004. Third International Conference Wuhan, China, October 21-24, 2004 Proceedings.
• BOINC: A System for Public-Resource Computing and Storage. David P. Anderson. 5th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing. November 8, 2004, Pittsburgh, USA. (Also available in ​Japanese)

Project-specific papers

• Gene Sequence Alignment on a Public Computing Platform. Stephen Pellicer, Nova Ahmed, Yi Pan, and Yao Zheng. Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Parallel Processing Workshops (ICPP@'05), 2005.
• ​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
• Reporting@Home: Delivering Dynamic Graphical Feedback to Participants in Community Computing Projects. Stuart Ozer, David E. Kim, David Baker (in preparation).

Other papers on volunteer computing

• 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: ​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.
• ​SLINC: A Framework for Volunteer Computing, James Baldassari, David Finkel, and David Toth, Proceedings of the 18th IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems - PDCS 2006, November 13-15, 2006, Dallas, Texas, USA.
• BOINC on JXTA by Marcin Cieslak (Thesis from Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland).