%0 Journal Article %1 WaldspurgerHHKS92 %A Waldspurger, Carl A. %A Hogg, Tad %A Huberman, Bernardo A. %A Kephart, Jeffrey O. %A Stornetta, Scott %D 1992 %J IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering %K Network computation computational markets, pricing, auctions, Pricing %N 2 %P 103-117 %T Spawn: A distributed computational economy %V 18 %X We have designed and implemented an open, market-based computational system called Spawn. The Spawn system utilizes idle computational reources in a distributed network of heterogeneous computer workstations. It supports both coarse-grain concurrent application and the remote executon of many independent tasks. Using concurrent Monte Carlo simulations as prototypical applications, we explore issues of fairness in resource distribution, currency as a form of priority, price equilibria, the dynamics of transients, and scaling to large systems. In addition to serving the practical goal of harnessing idle processor time in a computer network, Spawn has proven to be a valuable experimental workbench for studying computational markets and their dynamics

@article{WaldspurgerHHKS92, abstract = {We have designed and implemented an open, market-based computational system called Spawn. The Spawn system utilizes idle computational reources in a distributed network of heterogeneous computer workstations. It supports both coarse-grain concurrent application and the remote executon of many independent tasks. Using concurrent Monte Carlo simulations as prototypical applications, we explore issues of fairness in resource distribution, currency as a form of priority, price equilibria, the dynamics of transients, and scaling to large systems. In addition to serving the practical goal of harnessing idle processor time in a computer network, Spawn has proven to be a valuable experimental workbench for studying computational markets and their dynamics}, added-at = {2006-09-13T17:44:28.000+0200}, author = {Waldspurger, Carl A. and Hogg, Tad and Huberman, Bernardo A. and Kephart, Jeffrey O. and Stornetta, Scott}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/21c86dc1da82b61979ea7c7c996cf9cbd/jmm}, description = {JMM master bibtex}, interhash = {9c691929e68531beacbdcea1fc7b1888}, intrahash = {1c86dc1da82b61979ea7c7c996cf9cbd}, jmm_note = {88, 217, http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/personal/caw/papers.html}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering}, keywords = {Network computation computational markets, pricing, auctions, Pricing}, number = 2, pages = {103-117}, timestamp = {2006-09-13T17:44:28.000+0200}, title = {Spawn: A distributed computational economy}, volume = 18, year = 1992 }