Client-Side Processing Environment Based on Component Platforms and Web Browsers

Abstract

Distributed processing is an important issue of numerical calculations, in particular concerning the problems of time-consuming calculations. Solving this problem requires appropriate software, which is more complicated than the implementation in parallel environments. This article presents a proposal of distributed processing solution based on web browsers. This method, unlike the commonly used, does not require installing any software on the compute nodes. This is achieved through the distribution and execution of the code in the container, which is a web browser. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013.