Browser-based computing

Browser-based computing is the use of the web browsers to perform computing tasks. Opportunities for computing on the Web have been noted as far back as 1997.^[1] Computing over the web was described in 2000.^[2] Applications include distributed computing for web workers as illustrated by James (formerly CrowdProcess) and HASH, the use of the browser's stack in QMachine,^[3] the embedding of web applications as semantic hypermedia components^[4] and the Signaling Server in Peer-to-peer networks set via WebRTC.^[5] Browser-based computing complements cloud computing, because they reduce server-side computational load, often using cloud-hosted, RESTful web services.

References

^ Furmanski W (1997). "Petaops and Exaops: Super-computing on the Web". IEEE Internet Computing. 1 (2): 38–46. doi:10.1109/4236.601097.
^ Fox G (2001). "Introduction to Web computing". Computing in Science & Engineering. 3 (2): 52–53. doi:10.1109/mcise.2001.909002.
^ Wilkinson SR, Almeida JS (2014). "QMachine: commodity supercomputing in web browsers". BMC Bioinformatics. 15: 176. doi:10.1186/1471-2105-15-176. PMC 4063228. PMID 24913605.
^ Verborgh R (2014). "Serendipitous web applications through semantic hypermedia" (PDF). Sort. 100.
^ "WebRTC". WebRTC.org.

[1] Furmanski W (1997). "Petaops and Exaops: Super-computing on the Web". IEEE Internet Computing. 1 (2): 38–46. doi:10.1109/4236.601097.

[2] Fox G (2001). "Introduction to Web computing". Computing in Science & Engineering. 3 (2): 52–53. doi:10.1109/mcise.2001.909002.

[3] Wilkinson SR, Almeida JS (2014). "QMachine: commodity supercomputing in web browsers". BMC Bioinformatics. 15: 176. doi:10.1186/1471-2105-15-176. PMC 4063228. PMID 24913605.

[4] Verborgh R (2014). "Serendipitous web applications through semantic hypermedia" (PDF). Sort. 100.

[5] "WebRTC". WebRTC.org.

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