Basic HTML version of Foils prepared August 15 98

Foil 23 Three Roles of Object Web Technologies in Computing

From Java Grande: Role of Java in Large Scale Computations NPACI Summer Institute on Parallel Computing -- August 21 98. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 1)One can "just" use Object Web technologies as a software infrastructure for building parallel, distributed or sequential computing environments which can have a very different architecture from the Web
  • e.g. write software in Java
  • e.g. adopt interfaces/standards such as JDBC, VRML, Java3D
2 2)Harness the power of the Web as a computer -- use up the idle cycles on the WebTV's in every home -- typically a Web Client based system
  • We will not discuss this here
3 3)One can view the Object Web as a distributed information system with modest performance and build a metacomputing system with the Web architecture
  • we "only" need to enhance the Object Web to get high performance
  • several ways of doing this -- common feature is that they all inherit rich web capabilities -- typically Web or Object Server based
  • By inheriting Object Web architecture, naturally track evolving and improving commodity technology base

in Table To:


© Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

If you have any comments about this server, send e-mail to webmaster@npac.syr.edu.

Page produced by wwwfoil on Sat Nov 28 1998