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Foil 12 Special Portals -- Computing I

From Integration of Web and Distributed Object Technologies in a New Generation of Grande Programming Environments PDPTA Las Vegas -- June 28 1999. by Geoffrey C. Fox
1 So we can discuss some special portals
  • Real World Wide Web and Business Enterprise Intranets
  • Virtual University and Training
  • Science and Engineering Computing Environments
2 The latter include several projects aimed at harnessing the power of the web to do computing
  • These can be divided into those that harness web clients (as in Javelin++ at ACM Conference June 99)
  • And those than make networks of Web or distributed object servers
3 NPAC has focussed on networks of web servers and these fit the portal model well
4 However there is most computing power in collections of web clients
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