Christophe Cerin, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris Nord, Universite de Paris Nord, France Gilles Fedak, Laboratoire de l'Informatique du Parallelisme, ENS Lyon, France
I think that this book is a necessity--a necessity for researchers, teachers, students, and for people concerned by this topic in the industry. ! I hope that readers of this book will feel the extraordinary freedom that researchers in desktop grids or volunteer computing enjoy. I hope that students will engage themselves in this research domain and continue to reinvent it. --Franck Cappello, Co-Director, INRIA-Illinois Joint Laboratory on PetaScale Computing