TY - JOUR
T1 - POPCORN market. Online markets for computational resources
AU - Regev, Ori
AU - Nisan, Noam
N1 - Funding Information:
Supported by a grant from the Israeli Ministry of Science.
PY - 2000/3
Y1 - 2000/3
N2 - The POPCORN project provides an infrastructure for globally distributed computation over the whole Internet. It provides any programmer connected to the Internet with a single huge virtual parallel computer composed of all processors on the Internet, which care to participate at any given moment. POPCORN provides a market-based mechanism for trade in CPU time to motivate processors to provide their CPU cycles for other peoples' computations. 'Selling' CPU time is as easy as visiting a certain web site with a Java-enabled browser. 'Buying' CPU time is done by writing a parallel program using the POPCORN paradigm. A third entity in the POPCORN system is a 'market' for CPU time, which is where buyers and sellers meet and trade. The POPCORN system may be visited on our web-site: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/ approx. popcorn.
AB - The POPCORN project provides an infrastructure for globally distributed computation over the whole Internet. It provides any programmer connected to the Internet with a single huge virtual parallel computer composed of all processors on the Internet, which care to participate at any given moment. POPCORN provides a market-based mechanism for trade in CPU time to motivate processors to provide their CPU cycles for other peoples' computations. 'Selling' CPU time is as easy as visiting a certain web site with a Java-enabled browser. 'Buying' CPU time is done by writing a parallel program using the POPCORN paradigm. A third entity in the POPCORN system is a 'market' for CPU time, which is where buyers and sellers meet and trade. The POPCORN system may be visited on our web-site: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/ approx. popcorn.
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U2 - 10.1016/S0167-9236(99)00067-6
DO - 10.1016/S0167-9236(99)00067-6
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AN - SCOPUS:0033906610
SN - 0167-9236
VL - 28
SP - 177
EP - 189
JO - Decision Support Systems
JF - Decision Support Systems
IS - 1
ER -