Archer: A Community Distributed Computing Infrastructure for Computer   Architecture Research and Education
  This paper introduces Archer, a community-based computing resource for computer architecture research and education. The Archer infrastructure integrates virtualization and batch scheduling middleware to deliver high-throughput computing resources aggregated from resources distributed across wide-area networks and owned by different participating entities in a seamless manner. The paper discusses the motivations leading to the design of Archer, describes its core middleware components, and presents an analysis of the functionality and performance of a prototype wide-area deployment running a representative computer architecture simulation workload. 
Renato Figueiredo, P. Oscar Boykin, Jose A. B. Fortes, Tao Li,   Jie-Kwon Peir, David Wolinsky, Lizy John, David Kaeli, Davi...