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This paper presents the design and the evaluation of the gridification of a radiotherapy dose computation application. Due to the inherent characteristics of the application and its execution, we choose the architectural context of volunteer computing. For this, we used the XtremWeb-CH environment. Experiments were conducted on a real volunteer computing testbed and show good speed-ups and very acceptable platform overhead, letting XtremWeb-CH be a good candidate for deploying parallel applications over a volunteer computing environment.
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Abdennhader, N. et al. (2011). Gridification of a Radiotherapy Dose Computation Application with the XtremWeb-CH Environment. In: Riekki, J., Ylianttila, M., Guo, M. (eds) Advances in Grid and Pervasive Computing. GPC 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6646. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20754-9_20
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