Abstract
The world-wide computing infrastructure on the growing
computer network technology is a leading technology to
make a variety of information services accessible
through the Internet for every users from the
high performance computing users through many of
personal computing users. The important feature of
such services is location transparency; information can
be obtained irrespective of time or location in
virtually shared manner.
In this article, we overview Ninf,
an ongoing global network-wide computing
infrastructure project which allows users to access
computational resources including hardware, software
and scientific data distributed across a wide area
network. Preliminary performance result on measuring
software and network overhead is shown, and that promises
the future reality of world-wide network computing.