Scientific publications

Astafiev S.N., Rumyantsev A.S.

Distributed Computing of R Applications Using RBOINC Package with Applications to Parallel Discrete Event Simulation

// Distributed Computer and Communication Networks. Communications in Computer and Information Science, Vol. 1552. Springer International Publishing, 2022. P. 396–407

Keywords: Distributed Computing, Volunteer Computing, BOINC, R Software, Generalized Semi-Markov Processes

R programming language is commonly used for statistical computing, data science and stochastic simulation. Existing packages for R allow to run parallel code on various parallel architectures, however, the support for distributed (volunteer) computing is rather weak. This article describes a new R package RBOINC that allows to run parallel code on desktop grid systems via the BOINC open source system for grid computing, which is a promising approach for parallel stochastic simulation. Among the possible ways to utilize the new package, an approach to parallel regenerative stochastic simulation within the generalized semi-Markov processes framework is suggested.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-97110-6_31

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