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The web as a global computing platform

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High-Performance Computing and Networking (HPCN-Europe 1999)

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Abstract

The current model of the World-Wide Web, or Web for short, has limited support for computing resources. In the current model, computing resources can be classified into two streams: server-side and client-side computing. The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) scripts are examples of server-side computing, and applets are examples of client-side computing. In this paper we point out the limitations of the Web for global distributed computing, and discuss our system that aims to add computing resources to the Web. In our proposed system clients will be able to upload code to remote, and possibly more powerful, machines where Web-based compute servers will execute the code and return the results back to clients. To help clients search for compute servers, we discuss our design of a broker system responsible for automatically allocating compute servers to clients.

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  1. Etisalat College of Engineering, Emirates Telecommunications Corporation, P.O. Box 980, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

    Qusay H. Mahmoud

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Peter Sloot Marian Bubak Alfons Hoekstra Bob Hertzberger

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Mahmoud, Q.H. (1999). The web as a global computing platform. In: Sloot, P., Bubak, M., Hoekstra, A., Hertzberger, B. (eds) High-Performance Computing and Networking. HPCN-Europe 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1593. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0100589

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