Distributed Computing on an Ensemble of Browsers

作者：Cushing Reginald^*; Putra Ganeshwara Herawan Hananda; Koulouzis Spiros; Belloum Adam; Bubak Marian; de Laat Cees

来源：IEEE Internet Computing, 2013, 17(5): 54-61.

DOI：10.1109/MIC.2013.3

Given the ubiquity of Web browsers and the performance gains being achieved by javaScript virtual machines, a question arises: Could Internet browsers become yet another middleware for distributed computing? With 2 billion users online, computing through Internet browsers could amass immense resources and transform the Internet into a distributed computer ideal for common classes of distributed scientific applications such as parametric studies. The proposed WeevilScout prototype framework builds on this idea, and offers results from a proof-of-concept cluster of globally distributed Internet browsers that computed thousands of bio-informatics tasks.

• 出版日期2013-10