WEBINVEQ thermobarometry: an experiment in providing interactive scientific software on the world wide web
Specialized scientific software is volatile and often has a small number of users with a wide variety of computer platforms. The problems of distributing, updating and maintaining such packages can be ameliorated by using the World Wide Web to distribute graphical interface processing to individual users Web browsers and performing the numerical computations on a single server. This application uses perl as the CGI scripting language and MATLAB as the computational language. The use of ascii files for communication between the perl scripts and MATLAB code and for storing error messages greatly simplifies debugging. The system has worked successfully for 12 months and the techniques have been adapted to other applications.
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