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Foil 5 Two Roles of Web Technologies

From Commodity(Web) Technologies in the service of Computational Grids Argonne Workshop on Computational Grids -- 7-10 Sept 97. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 One can "just" use Web technologies as a software infrastructure for building computational grids which can/should have a very different architecture from the Web
  • e.g. write software in Java
  • e.g. adopt interfaces/standards such as JDBC, VRML, Java3D
2 One can view the Web as a distributed information system with modest performance and preserve the basic architecture
  • "just" enhance the Web to get high performance
  • several ways of doing this -- common feature is that they all inherit rich web capabilities
3 Or one can adopt a bit of both approaches

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