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Foil 10 Why Use of Web Architecture as basis of Computational Grid?

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


HPCC is a small field and Scientific Computing a modest size field with limited resources for very hard problems and must leverage as much software as possible
  • Using architecture (rather than just tactical opportunities) of Web maximizes chance of re-using commercial technology on an ongoing basis
Web Software provides an excellent pervasive user interface with Java Applets and WebWindows
Web Software provides a potentially excellent high performance object oriented language (Java) for scientific and engineering computation
All(!?) we need to do is to add high performance and special features of scientific computing (math libraries) to the modest performance distributed information model of the Web!



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