Concept of User-PC computing system

摘要

The User-PC computing system (UPC) is a technology of realizing a parallel computing environment using idling computing resources (CPU cycles) in Personal Computers (PCs) of members in the same organization or group such as a laboratory in a university and a section in a company. UPC can resolve drawbacks in the registration of computing projects, the reliability of computing results, and the continuity of computations that may often happen in Volunteer Computing (VC) systems using voluntary PCs in the Internet. Thus, UPC can be easily and comfortably used by computing users. In this paper, we show the concept of UPC and preliminary evaluations.