
Presentation of the Book
The goal of this book is to offer an analysis of various approaches in Desktop
Grid Computing, a decade after the pioneering work. Desktop Grids use com-
puting, network, and storage resources of idle desktop PCs distributed over
multiple LANs or the Internet. Today, this type of computing platform forms
one of the largest distributed computing systems, and currently provides sci-
entists with tens of TeraFLOPS from hundreds of thousands of hosts. Several
topics will be discussed in detail, which may appeal to a much larger audi-
ence than the community of researchers in the field. This book is certainly the
first one to make