<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Computers connected to internet represent an immense computing power, mostly unused by their owners. One way to utilize this public resource is via world wide web, where users can share their resources using nothing more except their browsers. We survey the techniques employing the idea of browser-based voluntary computing (BBVC), discuss their commonalities, recognize recurring problems and their solutions and finally we describe a prototype implementation aiming at efficient mining of voluntary-contributed computing power.</p></abstract>

Computers connected to internet represent an immense computing power, mostly unused by their owners. One way to utilize this public resource is via world wide web, where users can share their resources using nothing more except their browsers. We survey the techniques employing the idea of browser-based voluntary computing (BBVC), discuss their commonalities, recognize recurring problems and their solutions and finally we describe a prototype implementation aiming at efficient mining of voluntary-contributed computing power.

Browser-based Harnessing of Voluntary Computational Power

Institute of Computing Science, Poznań University of Technology

Foundations of Computing and Decision Sciences

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Computers connected to internet represent an immense computing power, mostly unused by their owners. One way to utilize this public resource is via world wide...

Browser-based Harnessing of Voluntary Computational Power

Published Online: Mar 04, 2017

Page range: 3 - 42

Received: Aug 26, 2016

Accepted: Jan 19, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/fcds-2017-0001

Keywords
voluntary computing, desktop grids, browser-based computing, internet computing, survey, crowdsourced supercomputer, peer-to-peer computing

© 2017 Tomasz Fabisiak et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Browser-based Harnessing of Voluntary Computational Power

Published Online: Mar 04, 2017

Page range: 3 - 42

Received: Aug 26, 2016

Accepted: Jan 19, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/fcds-2017-0001

Keywordsvoluntary computing, desktop grids, browser-based computing, internet computing, survey, crowdsourced supercomputer, peer-to-peer computing

© 2017 Tomasz Fabisiak et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
voluntary computing, desktop grids, browser-based computing, internet computing, survey, crowdsourced supercomputer, peer-to-peer computing