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Gray computing: an analysis of computing with background JavaScript tasks

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ICSE '15: Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 1

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Websites routinely distribute small amounts of work to visitors' browsers in order to validate forms, render animations, and perform other computations. This paper examines the feasibility, cost effectiveness, and approaches for increasing the workloads offloaded to web visitors' browsers in order to turn them into a large-scale distributed data processing engine, which we term gray computing. Past research has looked primarily at either non-browser based volunteer computing or browser-based volunteer computing where the visitors keep their browsers open to a single web page for a long period of time. This paper provides a deep analysis of the architectural, cost effectiveness, user experience, performance, security, and other issues of gray computing distributed data processing engines with high heterogeneity, non-uniform page view times, and high computing pool volatility.

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Lavoie EHendren LPalumbo FBecchi MSchulz MSato K(2019)Personal volunteer computingProceedings of the 16th ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers10.1145/3310273.3322819(240-246)Online publication date: 30-Apr-2019
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ICSE '15: Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 1

May 2015

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ISBN:9781479919345

General Chair:
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ISTI-CNR, Italy
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University of Nebraska-Lincoln

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Lavoie EHendren LPalumbo FBecchi MSchulz MSato K(2019)Personal volunteer computingProceedings of the 16th ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers10.1145/3310273.3322819(240-246)Online publication date: 30-Apr-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3310273.3322819
Gullapalli SZimmermann TCleland-Huang JSu Z(2016)Atlas: an intelligent, performant framework for web-based grid computingProceedings of the 2016 24th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering10.1145/2950290.2983980(1154-1156)Online publication date: 1-Nov-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2950290.2983980

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