International Journal of Engineering Research
  • Year: 2017
  • Volume: 6
  • Issue: 12

Web Computing: An Introduction

1Department of Electrical/Computer Engineering

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Online published on 27 December, 2017.

Abstract

Web computing is computing enabled by and situated on the web. It involves accessing a machine that is somewhere connected to the Internet to process some data and obtain results. It is based on a client/server model. The main objective of web computing is to perform CPU intensive tasks by outsourcing the computations to external clients. This paper provides a brief introduction to web computing.

Keywords

Web computing, web-based computing