By looking at all the available solutions that could fulfill
our goal, note that solutions based on clusters and/or grids
do not fit our needs; these are designed for controlled environments
where node failure is very improbable, nodes are
typically well connected to each other, nodes can be trusted
and are very similar in terms of software and hardware. Having
this in mind, solutions like HTCondor [18], Hadoop [21],
XtremWeb [9] and other similar computing platforms are of
no use to attain our goals.