Distributed Rendering in an Open Self-Organised Trusted Desktop Grid

Abstract

Grid systems are an ideal basis to parallelise computationally intensive tasks that efficiently can be split into parts. One possible application domain for such systems is rendering of films. Since small companies and underground film producers do not have the possibility to maintain appropriate computing environments for their own films, grid-based approaches can be used to build a self-organised and autonomic computing infrastructure. In order to avoid such systems from being exploited by malicious agents, we present a novel approach introducing technical trust which results in the Trusted Desktop Grid. In this paper, we demonstrate that the system is able to automatically isolate malicious agents and support an efficient utilisation for benevolent agents -- resulting in a self-protecting and self-healing system.