Basic HTML version of Foils prepared May 12 1996

Foil 17 Features of FAFNER Server Code

From Lessons and Implementation -- RSA Factoring on the Web CRPC Annual Meeting -- May 14-17 1996. by Geoffrey Fox
Implemented as Perl scripts, invoked via CGI
Hierarchy of cooperating World-Wide Web servers used for many functions in the collaboration:
  • sieving task distribution
  • email-to-HTTP gateway
  • user registration services (including anonymity)
  • computational status updates
  • solution data collection
  • automated archival services

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