Volpex

The state of the art of parallel computing on volunteer nodes is generally limited to applications with “master- slave” or “bag-of-tasks” parallelism (a task does its own portion of the job without communicating with other tasks). The current bag-of-tasks model on BOINC works well. However, many scientific applications are not bag-of-task as they naturally require communication between tasks; therefore, they cannot run with BOINC without significant modifications. Our project aims to remove that limitation, enabling BOINC to work with a larger class of scientific applications so that we can support many more interesting projects that will benefit the world in the future.

Dr. Jaspal Subhlok Professor Department of Computer Science

Dr. Edgar Gabriel Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science

Dr. Margaret Cheung Assistant Professor Department of Physics

Rakhi Anand PhD Student Department of Computer Science

Hien Nguyen Masters Student Department of Computer Science

Dr. David Anderson Adjunct Professor Department of Computer Science

Dr. Rong Zheng Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science

Troy LeBlanc PhD Student Department of Computer Science

Eshwar Rohit Masters Student Department of Computer Science

• Website: http://volpex.cs.uh.edu/VCP/
• Join to team: Ukraine

• First seen on: 2011-10-14
• Date of completion: <font color="green"><strong>Project is Active</strong></font>