Browser-based computing explained

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.

Notes and References

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

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