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Foil 97 World-Wide Virtual Machine

From NII Technologies from WebTop Productivity to Computing Minnesota Presentations at Cray Research and University -- 13-14 November 95. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE

WebWork pilot project is a collaboration between NPAC, Boston University and Cooperative Systems Corporation, MA. It will prototype a candidate VSL, WWVM, Java based user interfaces, and port selected Grand/National Challenge applications to this platform.
The project will use NPAC WebTools to bootstrap the software process and will prototype WWVM in terms of current Web technologies (Screen 1)
Technically, early WWVM will include existent Web Servers with add-on CGI (Perl) scripts that build server-to-server communication and offer document database management, and module publication and linkage/instantiation support.
This base model will be further extended and refined by using and driving evolving Web technologies. For example, the disk-based model in Screen1a will likely evolve towards memory-mapped model based on multi-threaded interpreted compute-servers (Screen 1b)


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