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Technology for Integrating Idle Computing Cluster Resources into Volunteer Computing Projects

Abstract— In this paper we propose the technology for integrating idle computing cluster resources into volunteer computing projects. The main principles of this technology are the following: only standard cluster user rights and only idle computing cluster resources (i.e. the resources that are not employed by other cluster users) are used. We describe the CluBORun tool implementing this technology for BOINC-based volunteer computing projects. The CluBORun tool was successfully applied to boost the performance of volunteer computing projects SAT@home and OPTIMA@home.

Index Terms— volunteer computing, BOINC, computing cluster, job scheduler, MPI, SAT@home, OPTIMA@home.

I. V. Bychkov, M. O. Manzyuk, A. A. Semenov, O. S. Zaikin
Institute for System Dynamics and Control Theory SB RAS, RUSSIA
A. P. Afanasiev, M. A. Posypkin
A. A. Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems RAS, RUSSIA

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Cite: A. P. Afanasiev, I. V. Bychkov, M. O. Manzyuk, M. A. Posypkin, A. A. Semenov, O. S. Zaikin, "Technology for Integrating Idle Computing Cluster Resources into Volunteer Computing Projects," 2015 The 5th International Workshop on Computer Science and Engineering-Information Processing and Control Engineering (WCSE 2015-IPCE), pp. 109-114, Moscow, Russia, April 15-17, 2015.