The Web Originated as an Information system but we can clearly use it as a base for distributed computing and as parallel computing is just a special case of this with low latency and tight synchronization, for parallel Computing as Well! |
WebWork was our first Concept (with Boston University and Cooperating Systems) which concentrated on software engineering gotten by using information capabilities of Web linked to computing environments |
DataFlow (for coarse grain software integration) and Embarassingly Parallel applications are natural first Web thrusts as not so sensitive to performance issues |