ComcuteJS: A Web Browser Based Platform for Large-scale Computations
R. J. Debski, Tomasz Krupa, Przemyslaw Majewski · Computer Science · 2013
The paper presents a new, cost effective, volunteer computing based platform.It utilizes volunteers’ web browsers as computational nodes. The computationaltasks are delegated to the browsers and executed in the background (indepen-dently of any user interface scripts) making use of the HTML5 web workerstechnology. The capabilities of the platform have been proved by experimentsperformed in a wide range of numbers of computational nodes (1–400).