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Distributed Computing on an Ensemble of Browsers
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Cushing Reginald, Ganeshwara Putra, Adam Belloum, Spiros Koulouzis, Marian Bubak, Cees de Laat, "Distributed Computing on an Ensemble of Browsers," IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 99, no. 1, pp. 1, , 5555.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MIC.2013.3,
author = {Cushing Reginald and Ganeshwara Putra and Adam Belloum and Spiros Koulouzis and Marian Bubak and Cees de Laat},
title = {Distributed Computing on an Ensemble of Browsers},
journal ={IEEE Internet Computing},
volume = {99},
number = {1},
issn = {1089-7801},
year = {5555},
pages = {1},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MIC.2013.3},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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JO - IEEE Internet Computing
TI - Distributed Computing on an Ensemble of Browsers
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A1 - Cushing Reginald,
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A1 - Adam Belloum,
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Cushing Reginald, University of Amsterdam., Amsterdam
Ganeshwara Putra, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Adam Belloum, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Spiros Koulouzis, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Marian Bubak, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Cees de Laat, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam
In this paper, we propose a new approach to distributed computing with web browsers and a prototype framework called WeevilScout. The proliferation of web browsers and the performance gain being achieved by current JavaScript virtual machines raises the question whether Internet browsers can become yet another middleware for distributed computing. With 2 billion users online, computing through Internet browsers has the potential of amassing immense resources thus transforming the Internet into a distributed computer ideal for common classes of distributed scientific applications such as parametric studies. As a proof of concept we demonstrate how a cluster of globally distributed Internet browsers is used to compute thousands of bio-informatics tasks. WeevilScout is available at http://elab.lab.uvalight.net/weevilscout/
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Cushing Reginald, Ganeshwara Putra, Adam Belloum, Spiros Koulouzis, Marian Bubak, Cees de Laat, "Distributed Computing on an Ensemble of Browsers," IEEE Internet Computing, 08 Jan. 2013. IEEE computer Society Digital Library. IEEE Computer Society, <http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MIC.2013.3>
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