Abstract. 

The paper considers the BOINC paradigm and the evolution of software models for voluntary distributed computing. It is shown that the original version of the BOINC program was based on the “free market” model. The stagnation of the BOINC project, noted since 2014, required the development of an alternative “coordinated model” using a software mechanism (“global scheduler”) for selecting and distributing the computing power of volunteers’ digital devices. To overcome the ongoing decline in the number of active projects and active volunteers, a “collaborative model” for organizing the management of BOINC projects based on the methodology of co-opetition is proposed.

Keywords: 

distributed computing, voluntary computing, BOINC, virtual communities, sociology of science

PP. 79-89.

DOI: 10.14357/20790279240110 

EDN: HPFJLT

 

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