TY - CONF T1 - Integrating categorical resource types into a P2P desktop grid system T2 - Grid Computing, 2008 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Y1 - 2008 A1 - Kim,Jik-Soo A1 - Nam,Beomseok A1 - Marsh,M. A1 - Keleher,P. A1 - Bhattacharjee, Bobby A1 - Sussman, Alan KW - computing;peer-to-peer KW - computing;protocols; KW - computing;protocols;scalability KW - desktop KW - Grid KW - grid;distributed KW - grid;peer-to-peer KW - N-dimensional KW - resource KW - space;P2P KW - system;categorical KW - technique;grid KW - types;decentralized AB - We describe and evaluate a set of protocols that implement a distributed, decentralized desktop grid. Incoming jobs are matched with system nodes through proximity in an N-dimensional resource space. This work improves on prior work by (1) efficiently accommodating node and job characterizations that include both continuous and categorical resource types, and (2) scaling gracefully to large system sizes even with highly non-uniform distributions of job and node types. We use extensive simulation results to show that the resulting system handles both continuous and categorical constraints efficiently, and that the new scalability techniques are effective. JA - Grid Computing, 2008 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on M3 - 10.1109/GRID.2008.4662810 ER -