Web technology is transforming the information infrastructure inside and outside organizations. Along with this transformation, we are seeing the introduction of new work models. Remote working, collaborative computing and platform-neutrality are all promised by web technologies. When these promises will be delivered is another story. Recent history allows us to recognize three distinct phases of web technology, from enabling new services such as web sites, to defining a new type of application.
Organizations rapidly establish a presence on the Internet through web sites.
Distributed Computing Networking, powerful PCs and workstations have raised the level of interest in distributed computing. For technical applications, distributed computing means breaking a problem into smaller parts and using a number of machines for separately computing each part. Simulating experiments such as automobile crash tests lend themselves to distributed numerical models. Modeling atmospheric phenomena and complex financial instruments are equally well suited to distributed computation. DNFL is uniquely positioned to offer computation across a network of heterogeneous machines, with automatic processor prioritization, self-scheduling algorithms, and dynamic error handling and reporting.