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Challenges and Decisions in WOBCompute Design, a P2P Computing System Architecture

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Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering (ENASE 2020)

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In the field of large-scale computing, Cloud Computing Services gained popularity due to their low cost and availability. Alternatives exist in the form of distributed computing systems, most of which combine existing, cheap, commodity hardware into clusters of computing and storage resources. Most of these implementations are Client-Server model-based. Decentralized solutions employ a form of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) design, however, without major benefits besides the decentralized task coordination, and due to increased design complexity compared to the Client-Server models, these implementations haven’t gained widespread popularity. In this paper, the architecture of WOBCompute is presented, which is P2P based, and features decentralized task coordination, the possibility of workload transfer via checkpoints, and task tracking and location queries with the possibility of messaging between parallel branches of a distributed application. Architecture design considerations and choices are also presented. The overlay of the P2P system is a super-peer driven clusters organized into an extended star topology. Using backup super-peers, and distributing the cluster members between them, the size and stability of the clusters are improved; query and lookup messages are limited to only the super-peers and the topology employed reduces the longest message path. The complexity of the system mandates the use of a middleware, which hides these and provides a simplified interface for a distributed application to take advantage of the computing resources, being a combination of in-house computing devices, personal or volunteer donated resources, as well as Cloud-based VMs.

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Filep, L. (2021). Challenges and Decisions in WOBCompute Design, a P2P Computing System Architecture. In: Ali, R., Kaindl, H., Maciaszek, L.A. (eds) Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering. ENASE 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1375. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70006-5_6

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