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GLOBAL foilset Master Foilset for Fall 95 WebWork -- MetaComputing and Distributed Software Engineering

This describes the forces motivating use of Web in MetaComputing

First the need for a pervasive technology base for HPCC which is otherwise a nonviable niche market.

The growing number of Web-enabled machines and the development of WebWindows giving the productivity tools needed for a true distributed HPCC software engineering environment

We describe the 3 layer model of WebWork

At the high end we describe our early example -- WebFlow and how this can be extended to a full WebHPL with mixed interpreted and compiled systems.

At the base level, we have the World-Wide Virtual Machine as a mesh of computationally extended web servers

At the Intermediate level, we propose WebScript to integrate VRML, PERL5 Java and similar domain specific scripting systems

Table of Contents for Master Foilset for Fall 95 WebWork -- MetaComputing and Distributed Software Engineering

• Convergence of Communications and Computing
• Importance of Pervasive User and Technology Base

• This enables parallel software engineering

• A network of compute enhanced Web Servers

• Think as Web Implementation of AVS or Khoros
• This also illustrates role of Java

• Initially HPFCL with task parallelism done with Web
• Generally a hybrid Compiled/Interpreted Environment

• Java does both WebFlow Computing and WorkFlow analysis

• VRML is either a script for 3D graphics or a universal data structure
• Java is a script optimized for browsers and computing

• And comparison with HPCC and the "real world"

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Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu