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Foil 138 What Is WebWork -- NPAC,
Boston University, Cooperating Systems Collaboration -- I?

From Web Application and Services Overview as of June96 NASA ICASE Tutorial -- June 10-13 1996. by Geoffrey Fox * See also color IMAGE
WebWork is an open, world-wide distributed computing environment based on computationally extended Web Technologies
The backend computation and information infrastructure is provided by the World-Wide Virtual Machine -- a mesh of computationally extended Web Servers (called Compute Servers)
These servers manage (via CGI mechanisms) a collection of standardized computational units called WebWork Modules.
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

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