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.
• 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.)
• 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).