SDCI NMI Improvement: Middleware for Volunteer Computing

美国国家科学基金会网络基础设施软件开发（SDCI）项目网络基础设施办公室提案号：0721124首席研究员：David anderson机构：加州大学伯克利分校提案标题：SDCI NMI改进：志愿者计算中间件摘要该项目将通过将个人计算平台转变为一组共享计算平台来改进和维护一个支持大规模分布式计算的中间件系统。这个系统被称为BOINC，在早期的化身SETI@Home中最为人所知。该系统利用了志愿者的计算、时间和计算周期，这些时间和计算周期由个人电脑、集群和游戏设备（如Playstation3）提供。BOINC是分布式客户机/服务器中间件，科学项目在其上构建应用程序。该建议改进了BOINC，提高了中间件的多功能性，扩展了可用平台的使用，并支持和维护了软件基础。智力上的优点包括进一步探索志愿计算的效用，志愿计算是一种特殊的、日益重要的分布式计算模型。目前有30多个以boc为基础的项目支持广泛的科学学科，这代表了更广泛的影响。拟议的工作有望加强对现有项目的支持，并为利用BOINC及其可获得的分布式资源的新型项目奠定基础。

National Science FoundationNSF Software Development for Cyberinfrastructure (SDCI) ProgramOffice of CyberinfrastructureProposal Number: 0721124Principal Investigator: David AndersonInstitution: University of California-BerkeleyProposal Title: SDCI NMI Improvement: Middleware for Volunteer Computing AbstractThis project will improve and maintain a middleware system supporting distributed computing on massive scale by turning personal computing platforms into a set of shared compute platforms. This system is called BOINC, and is best known in an earlier incarnation called SETI@Home. The system leverages volunteer computing, time and compute cycles donated by individual PC's, clusters, and soon gaming devices such as Playstation3. BOINC is the distributed client/server middleware on which science projects build applications. This proposal improves BOINC improves the versatility of the middleware, expands available platform usage, and supports and maintains the software base. The intellectual merit includes further exploration into the utility of volunteer computing, a specific and increasingly important distributed computing model. Broader impact is represented in the more than 30 current BOINC-based projects supporting a wide range of scientific disciplines. The proposed work promises to strengthen support for existing projects and lay the groundwork for new types of projects to make use of BOINC and the distributed resources it can access.