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Carter, John | A collective approach to harness idle resources | We propose a collective approach for harnessing the idle resources (cpu, storage, and bandwidth) of nodes (e.g., home desktops) distributed across the Internet. Instead of a purely peer-to-peer (P2P) approach, we organize participating nodes to act collectively using collective managers (CMs). Pa... | Idle resources; Computer nodes | 2008 |
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Carter, John | Ensuring prolonged participation and deterring cheating behaviors in a collective | We are building a system that harnesses the idle resources (cpu, storage, and bandwidth) of nodes (e.g., home desktops) distributed across the Internet to build useful distributed services like content distribution or remote backup. Users are compensated in return for contributing their nodes? id... | Collective systems; Cheating; Idle resources; Nodes | 2008 |