Near and Future Projects

A WWW Based Computing Project Undertaken at NPAC

In collaboration with Boston University and Cooperating Systems NPAC has been developing concepts and prototypes of "Compute-Webs" over the last year.

This work is partly motivated by the integration of information processing and computation for both a better programming environment and for a natural support of data intensive computing.

Further the Web itself represents the largest available computer with worldwide some 20 million potential nodes which is expected to grow by a factor of 10 as the Information Superhighway is deployed fully.