Korea@Home
project attempts to harness a massive computing power using
a
great numbers of PCs distributedly linked to the Internet.
The computing power is used to process the massive information
which is difficulty
of working in a single process.
Korea has a very advanced high-speed Internet infrastructure.
It is known that Korea has the best Internet utilization among
any other countries
in the world. In Korea, the popularization of PC is about 80%,
and Internet users are about 77%.
This advanced infrastructure is an ddvantage to build the Internet-based
distributed computing environment with low costs and high efficiency.
With the purpose of making the utmost use of this advanced infrastructure,
the Supercomputing Center of KISTI (Korea Institute of Science
and Technology Information)under the support of the KCC (Korea Communications Commission)
has been leading theKorea@Home project from 2002.
Currently, this project is running and solving large-scale distributed/parallel
application problems such as bio, climate, cryptology, and astronomy.
Volunteers can participate in Korea@Home project from anywhere on Internet
to contribute their own PC's idle time.
Korea@Home
system basically consists of the server and a lot of the agents
installed in volunteers 'PC.
The server manages jobs and agents. On receiving a job
from the server, an agent starts to execute the job.
After
the job finishes, the agent returns job results back to
the server.
