Browser-based computing

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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

  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. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/3422394. 
  3. Wilkinson SR, Almeida JS (2014). "QMachine: commodity supercomputing in web browsers.". BMC Bioinformatics 15: 176. doi:10.1186/1471-2105-15-176. PMID 24913605. 
  4. Verborgh R (2014). "Serendipitous web applications through semantic hypermedia". Sort 100. http://ruben.verborgh.org/phd/ruben-verborgh-phd.pdf. 
  5. "WebRTC". http://www.webrtc.org.