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Foil 23 PSE and the Web -- Base Concepts

From HPCC Futures Topic 1:Problem Solving Environments as the best Software Model Trip to China -- July 12-28,96. by Geoffrey Fox * See also color IMAGE

We adopt a broad view/definition of Problem Solving Environment as a distributed system capable of attacking complex, so far unsolvable problems by integrating information and computation.
  • This includes both scientific and large scale enterprise computing systems.
Development of such systems was slow/inefficient so far due to the separation of (lower end) PC computing world (focused on productivity tools for information processing such as authoring or database) and (higher end) UNIX computing world (focused on HPCC)
Both platforms become now integrated by the Web phenomenon in the form of what we called WebWindows paradigm.
Hence, Web based distributed computing within the WebWindows framework offers a novel, unique and powerful model for PSEs that include and integrate NII and HPCC components.


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