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In this paper we present BitWorker, a platform for community distributed computing based on BitTorrent. Any splittable task can be easily specified by a user in a meta-information task file, such that it can be downloaded and performed by other volunteers. Peers find each other using Distributed Hash Tables, download existing results, and compute missing ones. Unlike existing distributed computing schemes relying on centralized coordination point(s), our scheme is totally distributed, therefore, highly robust. We evaluate the performance of BitWorker using mathematical models and real tests, showing processing and robustness gains. BitWorker is available for download [1] and use by the community.
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We would like to thank Maxime Petazzoni (Software Engineer at SignalFuse, Inc), original author, main developer and maintainer of the Ttorrent library, a Java implementation of the BitTorrent protocol. The library was used as a basis for our implementation.
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Durand, A., Gasparian, M., Rouvinez, T., Aad, I., Braun, T., Trinh, T.A. (2015). BitWorker, a Decentralized Distributed Computing System Based on BitTorrent. In: Aguayo-Torres, M., Gómez, G., Poncela, J. (eds) Wired/Wireless Internet Communications. WWIC 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9071. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22572-2_11
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