...Bayanihan: Web-Based Volunteer Computing Using Java

To appear in the 2nd International Conference on World-Wide Computing and its Applications (WWCA`98), Tsukuba, Japan, March 4-5, 1998.

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...problem,

Or maybe just a cool challenge, depending on who one talks to.

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...Japan).

I have been unable to find the original reference for this example.

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...work,

It is possible and easy to write an applet that continues to run in the background, even if the user moves to a different web page.

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...file.

To ensure that the user does not turn Java off, the server can check if it has been periodically receiving data from the applet - if it has not, then the server stops providing service to the user.

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...it.

Given reasonably appropriate applications.

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...NOIAs,

Interestingly, the word noia, Greek for ``mind'', conjures-up images of a brain-like massively parallel network of tens of millions of small processors around the world.

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...Bayanihan,

Pronounced buy-uh-nee-hun, bayanihan is a Filipino word meaning communal unity and cooperation, and is epitomized by the old tradition of neighbors helping a relocating family by physically carrying their house, and moving it to its new location.

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...object

A better name may be proxy. However, proxy means something else in HORB.

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...applets.

Since the worker applet has only one (sequential) computation thread, running only one instance of it does not result in parallelism, even on a dual-Pentium machine. Both processors can be used at full-speed, though, by running two instances of the worker applet in the machine at the same time.

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