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Foil 91 Near and Future Projects

From MetaComputing -- the Informal Supercomputer Tutorial for CRPC Annual Meeting at Argonne -- May 13 1996. by Mark Baker
WWW-Based Project Undertaken at NPAC
First prototype was built on compute-extended Web Servers using the standard CGI mechanism and applied successfully to the factorisation of the RSA 130 digit number which was distributed to a net of Web servers.
This work was presented at the SC'95 and was given the award as the most geographically dispersed and heterogeneous metacomputing solution in the Teraflop Challenge contest.

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

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