A Peer to Peer Approach to Efficient High Performance Computing

Nowadays, many applications call for collaborative solutions in order to accomplish complex projects requiring huge amounts of computing resources, e.g., physical science simulation. Many approaches have been proposed in order to design a task partitioning strategy able to assign pieces of execution to the appropriate workers. In this paper, we describe our peer to peer solution for solving complex works by using the idling computational resources of users connected to our network. More in detail, we designed a framework that allows users to share their CPU and memory in a secure and efficient way. By doing this, users help each others by asking the network available computational resources when they face high computing demanding tasks. Differently from many proposal available for volunteer computing, users providing their resources are rewarded with tangible credits, i.e., they can redeem their credits by asking computation power to solve their own task or/and they can redeem them earning coins. As we do not require to power additional resources for solving tasks (we better exploit unused resources already powered instead).