Resource Management for Responsive Web Computing
Azer Bestavros, Marina Chen, Mark E. Crovella, Abdelsalam Heddaya, Stan Sclaroff, James Cowie · 1996
The exploding demand for services like the World Wide Web reflects the potential that is presented by globally distributed information systems. The number of WWW servers world-wide has doubled every 3 to 5 months since 1993, outstripping even the growth of the Internet. Ateach of these self-managed sites, the Common GatewayInterface (CGI) and Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) already constitute a rudimentary basis for contributing local resources to remote collaborations. However, the Web has serious deficiencies that make it unsuited for use as a true medium for metacomputing --- the process of bringing hardware, software, and expertise from many geographically dispersed sources to bear on large scale problems. These deficiencies are, paradoxically, the direct result of the very simple design principles that enabled its exponential growth. There are many symptoms of the problems exhibited bytheWeb: disk and network resources are consumed extravagantly# information se