The I-Cluster Cloud: distributed management of idle resources for intense computing

In this paper we introduce the I-Cluster initiative and its overall architecture and present the main issues addressed in the conception of the I-Cluster framework, such as solving peer-to-peer computing security issues using OS sandboxing, self-organization and resilience to unanticipated disconnections of large and heterogeneous community of computers, as well as automatic resource collection. To validate the I-Cluster framework we both present experimental results obtained with a small scale prototype and simulated results for environments with a larger number of resources.