
Chapter 12
Roles of Desktop Grids in Hybrid
Distributed Computing
Infrastructures
Simon Delamare
INRIA, University of Lyon, Lyon, France
Gilles Fedak
INRIA, Lyon, France
12.1 Hybrid Distributed Computing Infrastructures (H-DCI) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
12.2 Using Local Desktop Grids as Cache-to-Cloud Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
12.3 Using Cloud Resources to Improve the QoS of Desktop Grids . . . . . . . . . 268
12.3.1 Motivation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
12.3.2 SpeQuloS Framework Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .