Web-based distributed computing using Parasite

Computing potential is wasted and idle not only when applications are executed, but also when a user navigates the Internet. To take advantage of this, an architecture named Parasite has been designed in order to use distributed and networked resources, without disturbing local computation. This is the working principle of certain global computing projects, but our development introduces new ideas with respect to user intervention, the distributed programming paradigm or the resident software on each user´s computer. The project is based on developing software technologies and infrastructures in order to facilitate Web-based distributed computing. This paper outlines the most recent advances in the project, as well as discussing the architecture developed and an experimental framework that would validate this infrastructure.