Browser-based computing
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Browser-based computing is a term denoting 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 CrowdProcess, 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
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- ^ Wilkinson SR, Almeida JS (2014). "QMachine: commodity supercomputing in web browsers". BMC bioinformatics. 15: 176. PMID 24913605.
- ^ Verborgh R (2014). "Serendipitous web applications through semantic hypermedia" (PDF). Sort. 100.
- ^ "WebRTC".
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