{"title":"Co-Opetition in the BOINC Community","authors":"V. Tishchenko","doi":"10.1134/S1063779624030870","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>The paper considers the evolution of software models for the behavior of volunteers in the community of voluntary computing, implemented on the open platform BOINC. It is shown that the original version of the BOINC program was based on the “free market” model. The stagnation of the BOINC project 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 is proposed, which is based on the mechanism of co-competition (“co-opetition”).</p>","PeriodicalId":729,"journal":{"name":"Physics of Particles and Nuclei","volume":"55 3","pages":"378 - 380"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Physics of Particles and Nuclei","FirstCategoryId":"101","ListUrlMain":"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S1063779624030870","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"PHYSICS, PARTICLES & FIELDS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The paper considers the evolution of software models for the behavior of volunteers in the community of voluntary computing, implemented on the open platform BOINC. It is shown that the original version of the BOINC program was based on the “free market” model. The stagnation of the BOINC project 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 is proposed, which is based on the mechanism of co-competition (“co-opetition”).
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The journal Fizika Elementarnykh Chastits i Atomnogo Yadr of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR, Dubna) was founded by Academician N.N. Bogolyubov in August 1969. The Editors-in-chief of the journal were Academician N.N. Bogolyubov (1970–1992) and Academician A.M. Baldin (1992–2001). Its English translation, Physics of Particles and Nuclei, appears simultaneously with the original Russian-language edition. Published by leading physicists from the JINR member states, as well as by scientists from other countries, review articles in this journal examine problems of elementary particle physics, nuclear physics, condensed matter physics, experimental data processing, accelerators and related instrumentation ecology and radiology.