P2PCS - A Pure Peer-to-Peer Computing System for Large Scale Computation Problems

Abstract

Complex and large scale scientific computation problems require high computing machines to process data or jobs which are expensive in terms of money. One most successful and low cost mechanism for acquiring the necessary computation power for such type of application is the Peer-to-Peer computing paradigm, which makes use of the computational power of personal computers. The peer-to-peer (P2P) systems represent the applications that allow direct communication between peers and resource harvesting. In this paper we propose a generic Peer-to-Peer computing system (P2PCS) to process complex and large scale scientific computation problems. The system utilizes the CPU cycles of desktop PCs which are connected to the network to perform the computations. We are implementing this system in JAVA technology by using Sun's JXTA --JXSE 2.5 libraries.