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
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e.g. write software in Java
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e.g. adopt interfaces/standards such as JDBC, VRML, Java3D
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One can view the Web as a distributed information system with modest performance and preserve the basic architecture
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"just" enhance the Web to get high performance
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several ways of doing this -- common feature is that they all inherit rich web capabilities
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Or one can adopt a bit of both approaches
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