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Foil 64 Overall Principles of Computing on the Web

From Miscellaneous Presentation Material used in 1996 Research Presentations -- 1996. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE

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



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