Comcutejs: A Web Browser Based Platform For Large-Scale Computations

Abstract

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).

Keywords

• volunteer computing
• parallel computations
• large-scale computations
• augmented cloud computing