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Xu ZW, Yu ZS, Li FZ et al. Hypertasking: From information web to computing utility. JOURNAL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 40(3): 607−620, May 2025. DOI: 10.1007/s11390-025-5126-4
Citation: Xu ZW, Yu ZS, Li FZ et al. Hypertasking: From information web to computing utility. JOURNAL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, 40(3): 607−620, May 2025. DOI: 10.1007/s11390-025-5126-4
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Hypertasking: From Information Web to Computing Utility

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    Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

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    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100149, China

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The work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos. 62072434 and U23B2004.

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    Zhi-Wei Xu received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He is a professor of the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing. His research areas include high-performance computer architecture and distributed systems

    Zi-Shu Yu is a Ph.D. candidate of Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing. He received his B.E. degree in computer science and technology from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, in 2019. His current research interests include distributed systems and runtime management

    Feng-Zhi Li is a Ph.D. candidate of Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing. He received his B.E. degree in computer science and technology from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, in 2020. His current research interests include distributed systems and application packaging

    Yao Zhang is a Ph.D. candidate of Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing. He received his B.E. degree in computer science and technology from Peking University, Beijing, in 2022. His current research interests include distributed systems and resource management

  • Received Date: December 25, 2024
  • Accepted Date: February 10, 2025
    Abstract

  • John McCarthy proposed the vision of utility computing in 1961. Barbara Liskov proposed a related vision of abstraction-powered Internet Computer in 2009. This position paper outlines a distributed computing model towards realizing the McCarthy-Liskov vision. This “hypertasking” model aims at extending the “hypermedia” model of the World Wide Web into a model of World Wide Computing Utility, turning an information web into a computing web. The hypertasking model contains three abstractions, including global resource space, stored-computer architecture, and monadic hypermedia. A prototype architecture and experimental evidence are presented to support this perspective.

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