NPAC Technical Report SCCS-755
Exploration of Emerging HPCN Technologies for Web-Based Distributed Computing
Hon Yau, Alvin Leung, Wojtek Furmanski, Geoffrey Fox
Submitted February 20 191996
Abstract
The surge in the popularity of the World Wide Web (WWW) has
corresponded to a decreasing market for specialised high performance
computers. This paper discusses how, by making use of technology
developed from the broader end of the computing pyramid, much of the
past decade's work in distributed computing can be realised in the
context of the larger WWW market. Not only do these new technologies
offer fresh possibilities, but their pace of development is unlikely
to be matched by the traditional high performance research community.
A motivating application, discussions of the pertinent emerging
technologies, and NPAC's investigations of them, will be presented.