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Distriblets: Java‐based distributed computing on the Web

David Finkel, Craig E. Wills, Brian Brennan, Chris Brennan

Internet Research

ISSN: 1066-2243

Article publication date: 1 March 1999

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Abstract

Describes a system for using the World Wide Web to distribute computational tasks to multiple hosts on the Web. A programmer with a computation to distribute registers it with a Web server. An idle host uses this server to identify available computations and downloads a Java class to perform the computation ‐ we call this class a distriblet. The paper describes the programs written to carry out the load distribution, the structure of a distriblet class, and our experience in using this system.

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Citation

Finkel, D., Wills, C.E., Brennan, B. and Brennan, C. (1999), "Distriblets: Java‐based distributed computing on the Web", Internet Research, Vol. 9 No. 1, pp. 35-40. https://doi.org/10.1108/10662249910251327

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MCB UP Ltd

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