NEX.IO: A Scalable Crowd-Sourced Computing Architecture Using Idle Resources
Karan Dhabalia

ABSTRACT

Distributed computing is a difficult and important topic in
many systems applications today. The ability to divide work across
numerous available computing resources has been a ground breaking
advancement in parallel computing. In this project and paper, we
target the use of idle resources as distributed machines and aim to
provide a scalable and easy to use distributed architecture that gives
users distributed computing in the palm of their hands. Especially
when idle, hardware devices like mobile phones and even laptops can
provide sufficient compute power to run many user applications. Often
times, these devices go unused and under-utilized for many hours
during a given day, hence providing a large opportunity for users to
take advantage of their hardware capabilities. Additionally, due to
the mass availability of these everyday hardware devices, users can
easily scale their system to encompass hundreds and even thousands of
devices, creating a distributed system with enough compute power for
numerous applications. We provide a distributed systems architecture
that allows users to register hardware devices as available computing
resources, deploy jobs to these devices, scale the system to encompass
numerous mobile devices, and easily put together their own local
distributed system.