Web//ELLPACK: A Networked Computing Service on the World Wide Web
Sanjiva Weerawarana, Elias N. Houstis, John R. Rice, Margaret Gaitatzes, Shahani Markus · Purdue e-Pubs (Purdue University System) · 1996
Recent advances in wired and wireless networking infrastructure are leading to a new form of computing we call Networked Computing.Networked Computing is a form of computing where a user takes advantage of networked computing facilities available through the global networks ("the Net").Networked computing relies heavily on computing resources that are not locally present, but are only available to the user across the Net.Further, it provides an environment where components from different service providers can be combined in an intelligent manner to form a virtual problem solving environment for the problem at hand.This paper describes the IIELLPACK networked computing service that we have made available through the World Wide Web.IIELLPACK is a problem solving environment (PSE) for solving partial differential equation (POE) problems.In this document we describe our vision of networked computing and our experience in making this fairly complex system available over the web as a networked computing service.Our experiences indicate that this is a valid and realistic approach for providing computing services, but also suggest that to make networked computing practical, applications' architectures must change.This new model of computing is similar to practice that is ubiquitous in other areas such as accountinglbilling services where one uses software from one source along with the labor from another to achieve the desired computation.We envision that this model will eventually become fully automated 1.By virtually we mean that the software is only available remotely via over network.